Books

Reading list of some of the formative books and reading materials for Ụ́kpụ́rụ́, directly or indirectly. (Some of the books are harder to find than the others, but there are links to the ones available.)

(Pillaged books.)

• Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900–1960, Gloria Chuku
• Women in Igbo Life and Thought, Joseph Therese Agbasiere
• Political Organization in Nigeria since the Late Stone Age: A History of the Igbo People, John Oriji
• The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra, G. Ugo Nwokeji
• An Introduction to Nigerian Traditional Architecture: South-Eastern Nigeria, the Igbo-speaking Areas, Zbigniew R. Dmochowski
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Olaudah Equiano
• Western Ibo Society and Its Resistance to British Rule The Ekumeku Movement 1898-1911, Philip A. Igbafe
• Igbo Women and Political Participation in Nigeria, 1800s-2005, Gloria Chuku
• Weaving Tradition in Igbo-Land, Adiele Afigbo, C. S. Okeke
• Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia, Douglas B. Chambers
• A History of African Societies to 1870, Elizabeth Isichei
• Igbo Ukwu, vol. I & II, Thurstan Shaw
• Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, vol. I, Northcote Thomas
• Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, vol. IV, Northcote Thomas
• Among the Ibos of Nigeria, G. T. Basden
• The Land Has Changed: History, Society and Gender in Colonial Eastern Nigeria, Chima J. Korieh

(More pillaged books.)

• The Trouble With Nigeria, Chinua Achebe
• Dancing Histories: Heuristic Ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo, John C. McCall
• Nigerian History, Politics and Affairs, Adiele Afigbo
• Ropes of Sand, Adiele Afigbo
• The Twenty Years War, Robert D. Jackson
• Nri Warriors of Peace, Chikodi Aũunobi
• Igbo Worlds [Anthology], Elizabeth Isichei
• An Igbo Civilization, Onwuejeogwu
• "We Were All Slaves," Carolyn A. Brown
• Groundwork of Igbo history, Adiele Afigbo
• Oshimili and Aniocha: Their People and Land Tenure, Rufus A. I. Ogbobine
• Igbo History and Society: The Essays of Adiele Afigbo, Toyin Falola
• There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, Chinua Achebe
• Oil, British Interests and the Nigerian Civil War, Chibuike Uche
• Concubinage among Ngwa Igbo of Southern Nigeria, Victor C. Uchendu
• Art of Eastern Nigeria, G. I. Jones
• Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos, Herbert Cole, Chike Aniakor
• Ibo Art, G. I. Jones
• Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900–1960, Nwando Achebe
• Palm Oil and Protest, Susan Martin
• A Mighty Tree: Onitsha History..., Richard N. Henderson & Helen Henderson
• The Nigerian oil palm industry: (Government policy and export production, 1906-1965), Usoro, Eno J.
• Chi in Igbo Religion and Thought: The God in Every Man, I. Chukwukere
• Chi Symbolism as a Potent Mirror of Igbo Indigenous Worldview, Christopher I. Ejizu

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* Just as a note, the inclusion of books in this list does not necessarily mean that the information is completely correct or should be taken literally, some of the books, especially the colonial-era European reports, may be used for historical purposes, such as matching up historical events or as a springboard for research into a purported cultural practice, and may need closer scrutiny.