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Chinyere G. Okafor
No full textA picture of Dr. Chinyere G. Okafor is taken at the Kansas at the Kansas Writer's Association workshop. Rockwell Library, Wichita, KS. June 21, 2008
In her own voice: Agnes Okafor tells her stories
No full textThis booklet contains interviews, personal stories, and anecdotes; all centered on Agnes Nwamgbo Illo Okafor. It is compiled and edited by Chinyere Okafor. Contributing authors: Agnes Okafor, Michael Eneja, Charles Okafor, Beatrice Madike, Ngozi Nwosu, Andrew Okafor, Cosmas Madike, Josephine Okafor, Chinyere Okafor, Orbi Edozie-Ighofose, Okechukwu Okafor, and Kelechi Anyadiegwu
The gender of second chance
No full textThe Gender of Second Chance is a collection of five stories with characters whose lives intertwine in a continuing experience of gender, and what it means to be a man or woman in a remarkable, but challenging, society, with different cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, and practices.Chapter 1: The dimple on my right cheek -- Chapter 2: Mama Dipo and the police -- Chapter 3: The girls in John's testament -- Chapter 4: The magic of a loving bow -- Chapter 5: When God is knocking at your door
ODIMARA CHINYERE COMFORT's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
ODIMARA CHINYERE COMFORT's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
Theorizing omumu as an indigenous African concept of power
No full textThis research presents omumu as an Igbo concept of female power that connects mother, child (male, female, others), and the conceptual Earth Mother. This principle that propelled women to heights in pre-colonial times was grounded in the biologicality of a female body that was not Othered or defective, but normative in Igbo communities that centered on Mother Earth culture. The omumu principle empowered pre-colonial Igbo women to participate in arenas of public authority in religion, economy, and politics. Female power is often invoked today through women achievers, but the ideology that created and maintained such influence not only among women leaders, but also among ordinary women, needs to be studied in greater depth. Deconstructing the concept of omumu as the basis of human power in pre-colonial Igbo society is important for decolonizing people's minds, and it has the potential to dispatch its regenerative power for African peoples with similar cultural agency as the Igbo. What exactly is omumu? Is it a relevant discursive constitution for liberating the African mind, opening new ways of thinking about the past, future, and gender inclusivity? This paper addresses these questions while clarifying the theory of omumu
ODIMARA CHINYERE COMFORT's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
DS_DISC830084 – Supplemental material for A General Guide for the Optimization of Enzyme Assay Conditions Using the Design of Experiments Approach
No full textSupplemental material, DS_DISC830084 for A General Guide for the Optimization of Enzyme Assay Conditions Using the Design of Experiments Approach by Favour Chinyere Onyeogaziri and Christos Papaneophytou in SLAS Discovery</p
African Ikeji mask festivals of Aro and diaspora
No full textDr. Chinyere Grace Okafor, poet, playwright and fiction writer, Director of the Center for Women’s Studies and Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies and Religion. She came to Wichita State in 2013 as Associate Professor; and was promoted to Full Professor in 2009. See Dr. Okafor's Curriculum Vitae at: http://webs.wichita.edu/depttools/depttoolsmemberfiles/chinyere/Okafor_CV_2016.pdfThis book is about festival performance and how it works with the cultural nexus of a patriarchal culture. Such a culture is that of the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria and such a nexus is the mask-character or masquerade produced by clubs of privileged men. Organizers of mask performances usually operate in secret cults and their productions are usually shrouded in mystery, but this book has broken down walls of exclusion and incomprehension by unraveling the mystery of the mask performance to delineate its characteristics and engage its gender dimension. Drawing from extensive field work, library and archival research, the book deals with many subject areas, such as oral tradition, folk drama, women and gender
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