Njepu Amaka – Migration is Rewarding

A Sociocultural Anthropological Study of Global Economic Migration- White man’s magic, women trafficking, business and ethnicity among the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria

Eloka Nwolisa Okanga (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2003
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-50581-6 (ISBN)

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This sociocultural anthropological study of Njepu Amaka - migration is rewarding explores this famous Igbo expression in order to assess migratory propensity. This expression was originally attributed to Nwamkpi (a he-goat) who is the lecherous exponent of the advantages of Njepu Amaka. This book is the first original work on Njepu Amaka as an expression, which makes it possible for Igbo (Nigerian) global economic migration to be understood and appreciated. In this book, Njepu Amaka highlights the various patterns explored by Igbo people (Nigerians) as contemporary participants in global economic migration. It also studies trafficking of Nigerian women that has played a significant role in Njepu in contemporary global economic migration. The author sees Njepu Amaka as the true expression through which we can conceptualise the historical matrix of Igbo (Nigerian) global economic migrations.

The Author: Eloka C. P. Nwolisa Okanga did his secondary and graduate studies in Nigeria. He obtained the BA, STB and M.A. degrees in Theology, Religious Studies and Anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. At the same university he completed and obtained doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Social and Cultural Anthropology in May 1999. Since then he has been working as a Research Associate at MERIB – Migration and Ethnicity Research Institute Brussels and Researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is currently involved in a community educational development project for developing nations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

lt;i>Contents: Pre-Colonial Migrations - Colonial and Post-Colonial Migrations - Opposing Ethnicities in Nigeria - Nigeria, Igbo-Field: From Njepu Amaka to Checkout - Belgium: The Discovery and Eclipse of Tokunbo.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.9.2003
Reihe/Serie	Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes ; 62
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Amaka • among • Anthropological • Bildung • business • Eastern • economic • EloKa • Ethnicity • Ethnizität • Global • IBO • Igbo • Magic • man's • Man’s • Migration • Motivation • Nigeria • Njepu • Nwolisa • Okanga • rewarding • Sociocultural • Study • Trafficking • White • Wohlstand • Women
ISBN-10	3-631-50581-7 / 3631505817
ISBN-13	978-3-631-50581-6 / 9783631505816
Zustand	Neuware