Igbo in the Atlantic World

Toyin Falola is Frances and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin. He has written and edited more than 100 books, including The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (IUP, 2005).Raphael Chijioke Njoku is Director of International Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at Idaho State University.

"Makes a significant contribution to the sociology and historiography of the Igbo society, by documenting not only the cultural genealology, heterogeneity and dialects of this society but also their contributions to diasporic cultural formation, identity, and transmutation. This is probably the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on diverse aspects of Igbo society and culture." -Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Brock University

• Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments1. Introduction Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Toyin Falola SECTION I: IGBO INSTITUTIONS AND CUSTOMS AS BASELINE2. The Kingless People: The Speech Act as Shield and Sword Hannah Chukwu3. Igbo Goddesses and the Priests and Male Priestesses Who Serve ThemNwando Achebe 4. Gender Relations in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Igbo Society Gloria ChukuSECTION II: THE IGBO IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: THE MECHANICS AND PATTERNS OF MIGRATIONS, SETTLEMENTS AND DEMOGRAPHICS5. The Aro and the Trade of the Bight A. E. Afigbo 6. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the Bight of Biafra: An Overview Kenneth Morgan7. The Igbo and African Backgrounds of the Slave Cargo of the Henrietta Maria John Thornton8. 'A Great Many Boys and Girls': Igbo Children in the British Slave Trade, 1700-1808Audra A. Diptee9. Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth Century Niger Delta Raphael Chijioke Njoku10. The Clustering of Igbo in the Americas: Where, When, How, and Why?Gwendolyn Mildo Hall 11. The Demography of the Bight of Biafra Slave Trade, c. 1650-1850 Paul E. Lovejoy12. The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade Douglas B. ChambersSECTION III: CULTURAL CROSSCURRENTS: DIMENSIONS OF THE IGBO EXPERIENCE IN THE ATHLANTIC WORLD13. The Igbo Diaspora in the Atlantic World: African Origins and New World Chima J. Korieh 14. Olaudah Equiano and the Forging of an Igbo Identity Vincent Carretta 15. Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa – What's in a Name? Paul E. Lovejoy16. Archibald Monteath: Imperial Pawn and Individual Agent Maureen Warner-Lewis17. Igbo Influences on Masquerading and Drum-Dances in the Caribbean Robert W. Nicholls18. The Afro-Caribbean Diaspora in Reverse and its Implications for the Development of Christianity and Education in Igboland, Southeastern Nigeria: 1895-1925 Waibinte E. Wariboko19. The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference Raphael Chijioke Njoku20. Ethnicity and the Contemporary Igbo Artist: Shifting Igbo Identities in the Post-Civil War Nigerian Art World Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie21. SNDU: Patterns of the Igbo Quest for Jesus Power Ogbu U. KaluSelected Bibliography Notes on AuthorsIndex