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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

by Eloka Nwolisa Okanga (Author)
©2003 Thesis 398 Pages

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
398
Year
2003
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631505816
Language
English
Keywords
Nigeria Migration Motivation Wohlstand Bildung Ibo Ethnizität
Published
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2003. 398 pp., num. fig.

Biographical notes

Eloka Nwolisa Okanga (Author)

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.

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