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Farmers, traders, warriors, and kings : female power and authority in northern Igboland, 1900-1960
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Farmers, traders, warriors, and kings : female power and authority in northern Igboland, 1900-1960

Author: Nwando Achebe
Publisher: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©2005.
Series: Social history of Africa
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Nwando Achebe
ISBN: 0325070792 9780325070797 0325070784 9780325070780
OCLC Number: 60321798
Description: xii, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: When questions begin to be asked, then tales begin to be told -- Medicines and goddesses, priestesses and prophetesses : female expressions within the spiritual realm -- Farmers, traders, potters, and weavers : Nsukka women as economic actors -- Women in community politics : colonialism and the strategies of female resistance -- "Ochichi gi agafego oke" (you are governing too much!) : King Ahebi Ugbabe versus the community : a case study of female clout, excess, and conflict in Enugu-ezike -- Mmechi (conclusion): If you put your ear to the ground, you will hear the drumbeats of ghosts -- Appendix: Select female deities and medicines in Nsukka Division.
Series Title: Social history of Africa
Responsibility: Nwando Achebe.
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