Constructions of Belonging: Igbo Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century

by Axel Harneit-Sievers

Constructions of Belonging provides a history of local communities living in Southeastern Nigeria since the late nineteenth century, examining the processes that have defined, changed, and re-produced these communities. Harneit-Sievers explores both the meanings and the uses that the community members have given to their particular areas, while also looking at the processes that have shaped local communities, and have made them work and continue to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580461670
• ISBN13: 9781580461672
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"