Axel Harneit-Sievers, Constructions of Belonging: Igbo communities and the Nigerian state in the twentieth century.(Book review)

From: Africa | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Golden, Rebecca | Copyright information

AXEL HARNEIT-SIEVERS, Constructions of Belonging: Igbo communities and the Nigerian state in the twentieth century. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb 45.00 [pounds sterling]--978 15804 6167 2). 2006, 400 pp.

Harneit-Sievers endeavours to identify key factors in the construction of Igbo communities in the last century. His research invokes colonialism, Christianity, political ethnicity and the post-colonial state as 'external' elements, and town unions, neo...

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