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2 results for “memory”
Ngozi P. Uche
Official archives of the Nigerian Civil War remain incomplete, and much of what is known survives in family memory. This article analyses thirty oral testimonies collected in Enugu and Anambra States to show how survivors narrate displacement, hunger and retur…
Humanities and Social SciencesChiamaka R. Obi
Akwete cloth, woven by women in south-eastern Nigeria, recurs in modern Igbo poetry as an image of memory, labour and continuity. This review traces the motif through the work of several poets writing in Igbo and English since the 1970s, reading the loom as a …
Language, Literature and Linguistics