A List of Books on the Igbos by Igbos

Compiled by

Dan Awduche
University of Massachussettes, Amherst, MA.
10 October 1994.


AUTHOR: Oriji, John Nwachimereze
TITLE: Traditions of Igbo origin : a study of pre-colonial population movements in Africa
PUBLISHER: New York : P. Lang, c1990

AUTHOR: Afigbo, A. E.
TITLE: Ikenga, the state of our knowledge
PUBLISHER: Owerri [Nigeria] : RADA Pub. Co. ; Distributed by Alpha Bookshops, c1986.

AUTHOR: Afigbo, A. E.
TITLE: The Warrant Chiefs: indirect rule in southeastern Nigeria, 1891-1929
PUBLISHER: London, Longman, 1972.

AUTHOR: Afigbo, A. E.
TITLE: The Igbo and their neighbours : inter-group relations in Southeastern Nigeria to 1953
PUBLISHER: Ibadan, Nigeria : University Press, 1987.

AUTHOR: Afigbo, A. E.
TITLE: Ropes of sand : studies in Igbo history and culture
PUBLISHER: Ibadan : Published for University Press in association with Oxford University Press, 1981.

AUTHOR: Otu Iwelite Asusu Na Omenala Igbo
TITLE: Recommendations of the Igbo Standardization Committee of the Society for Promoting Igbo Language & Culture : (Otu Iwelite Asusu Na Omenala Igbo) Nigeria : containing all previously published volumes.
PUBLISHER: Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture, Nigeria

AUTHOR: Ifemesia, C. C.
TITLE: Traditional humane living among the Igbo : an historical perspecitve
PUBLISHER: Enugu, Nigeria : Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1979

AUTHOR: Ifemesia, C. C.
TITLE: Southeastern Nigeria in the nineteenth century : an introductory analysis
PUBLISHER: New York : NOK Publishers, c1978.

AUTHOR: Amadi, L. E.
TITLE: Igbo heritage : (curriculum materials for social and literary studies)
PUBLISHER: Owerri, Nigeria : Imo Onyeukwu Press, 1987.

AUTHOR: Nnabuchi, Nwankwo.
TITLE: In defence of Igbo belief system
PUBLISHER: Enugu, Nigeria : CECTA (Nigeria) Ltd., 1986.

AUTHOR: Nnamani, Jude Onuchukwu
TITLE: Nike chieftaincy, 1919-1985
PUBLISHER: Enugu [Nigeria] : Govt. Printer, 1986

AUTHOR: Onwuejeogwu, M. Angulu.
TITLE: An Igbo civilization : Nri kingdom & hegemony
PUBLISHER: Londoon:Ethnographica; Nigeria : Ethiope, 1981.

AUTHOR: Atado, Chuks
TITLE: African marriage customs & Church law : a case-study of the Igbos
PUBLISHER: Kano : Modern Printers, 1988.

AUTHOR: Okolugbo, Emmanuel.
TITLE: The Ndosumili and the Ukwuani: a history of Christianity in Nigeria
PUBLISHER: Ibadan, Nigeria : Daystar Press, 1984.

AUTHOR: Ekechi, Felix K
TITLE: Missionary enterprise and rivalry in Igboland
PUBLISHER: London, Cass, 1972

AUTHOR: Ohadike, Don C.
TITLE: Anioma : a social history of the Western Igbo people
PUBLISHER: Athens : Ohio University Press, c1994.

AUTHOR: Ohadike, Don C.
TITLE: The Ekumeku movement : Western Igbo resistance to the British conquest of Nigeria, 1883-1914
PUBLISHER: Athens : Ohio University Press, c1991.

AUTHOR: Ejiofor, Lambert U.
TITLE: Dynamics of Igbo democracy : a behavioural analysis of Igbo politics in Aguinyi clan
PUBLISHER: Ibadan, Nigeria : University Press, Oxford University Press, 1981

AUTHOR: Nwabara, S. N.
TITLE: Iboland : a century of contact with Britain 1860-1960
PUBLISHER: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1977.

AUTHOR: Ejiofor, Lambert U.
TITLE: Igbo kingdoms : power and control
PUBLISHER: Onitsha, Nigeria : Africana Publishers, 1982

AUTHOR: Nwankwo, Arthur Agwuncha
TITLE: The Igbo leadership and the future of Nigeria
PUBLISHER: Enugu, Nigeria : Fourth Dimension Publishers

AUTHOR: Agbagha, Mma
TITLE: The Igbo predicament
PUBLISHER: Enugu, Nigeria : Network Publishers, 1983

AUTHOR: Nzimiro, Ikenna
TITLE: Studies in Ibo political systems; chieftaincy and politics in four Niger states
PUBLISHER: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972.

AUTHOR: Ahiajoku lecture colloquium
TITLE: Igbo socio-political system : papers presented at the 1985 Ahiajoku lecture colloquium.
PUBLISHER: Owerri, Imo State : Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth, and Sports, 1986

AUTHOR: Ahiajoku lecture colloquium
TITLE: Igbo jurisprudence : law and order in traditional Igbo society : papers presented at the 1986 Ahiajoku Lecture (Onugaotu) Colloquium.
PUBLISHER: Owerri, Imo State : Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth, and Sports, 1986

AUTHOR: Ahiajoku lecture colloquium
TITLE: Igbo traditional education : papers presented at the 1987 Ahiajoku Lecture Colloquium.
PUBLISHER: Owerri, Imo State : Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth, and Sports, 1988

AUTHOR: Ahiajoku lecture colloquium
TITLE: The Igbo concept of the sacred : papers presented at the 1988 Ahiajoku lecture (Onugaotu) colloqium
PUBLISHER: Owerri [Nigeria] : Ministry of Information & Culture, 1989

AUTHOR: Ahiajoku lecture colloquium
TITLE: Igbo economics : papers presented at the 1989 Ahiajoku lecture (Onugaotu) colloquium.
PUBLISHER: Owerri [Nigeria] : Ministry of Information & Culture, 1989

AUTHOR: Okigbo, P. N. C.
TITLE: Towards a reconstruction of the political economy of Igbo civilization (Ahiajoku lecture ; 1986)
PUBLISHER: Owerri [Nigeria] : Ministry of Information & Culture, 1986

AUTHOR: Nnaji, H. I.
TITLE: Modern English-Igbo dictionary
PUBLISHER: Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria : Gonaj, [1985]

AUTHOR: Ogbalu, F. Chidozie
TITLE: Igbo-English dictionary
PUBLISHER: Port Harcourt, African Literature Bureau, 1959

AUTHOR: Ogbalu, F. Chidozie
TITLE: Okowa-Okwu : Igbo-English-English-Igbo dictionary
PUBLISHER: Nigeria : University Pub. Co., [1962]

AUTHOR: Ogbalu, F. Chidozie
TITLE: The correct way to write Igbo
PUBLISHER: Onitsha, Nigeria : University Pub. Co., 1981, c1978.

AUTHOR: Ogbalu, F. Chidozie
TITLE: Standard Igbo : path to its development
PUBLISHER: Onitsha : University Pub. Co., 1974

AUTHOR: Ogbalu, F. Chidozie.
TITLE: Igbo attitude to sex : containing over 1,000 proverbs on sex
PUBLISHER: Onitsha, [Nigeria] : University Publishing Co., 1978

AUTHOR: Ogbalu, F. Chidozie and Nolue Emenanjo (Editors)
TITLE: Igbo language and culture
PUBLISHER: Ibadan, Nigeria : Oxford University Press, 1975

AUTHOR: Obiego, Cosmas Okechukwu
TITLE: African image of the ultimate reality : an analysis of Igbo ideas of life and death in relation to Chukwu-God
PUBLISHER: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1984

AUTHOR: Metuh, Emefie Ikenga
TITLE: African religions in Western conceptual schemes : the problem of interpretation : studies in Igbo religion
PUBLISHER: Ibadan, Nigeria : Pastoral Institute, Bodija c1985

AUTHOR: Udobata Onunwa
TITLE: African spirituality : an anthology of Igbo religious myths
PUBLISHER: Darmstadt : Thesen, 1992

AUTHOR: Ezekwugo, Christopher U. M
TITLE: Chi, the true god in Igbo religion
PUBLISHER: Alwaye, Kerala, India : Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Theology, 1987

AUTHOR: Onuh, Charles Ok
TITLE: Christianity and the Igbo rites of passage : the prospects of inculturation
PUBLISHER: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1992.

AUTHOR: Ekwunife, Anthony N. O
TITLE: Consecration in Igbo traditional religion
PUBLISHER: [Nigeria] : Jet Publishers, [1990]

AUTHOR: Obilor, John Iheanyichukwu.
TITLE: The doctrine of the resurrection of the dead and the Igbo belief in the "Reincarnation" : a systemico -theological study
PUBLISHER: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1994

AUTHOR: Odoemene, Nnamdi Anacletus
TITLE: The fundamentals of African traditional religion : a key to African development
PUBLISHER:

AUTHOR: Metuh, Emefie Ikenga
TITLE: God and man in African religion : a case study of the Igbo of Nigeria
PUBLISHER: London : G. Chapman, 1981

AUTHOR: Ozigboh, Ikenga R. A
TITLE: Igbo Catholicism : the Onitsha connection, 1967-1984
PUBLISHER: Onitsha, Nigeria : Africana-Fep Publishers, 1985

AUTHOR: Ilogu, Edmund.
TITLE: Igbo life and thought
PUBLISHER: [Onitsha, Nigeria : University Pub. Co., c1985

AUTHOR: Okparocha, John
TITLE: Mbari : art as sacrifice
PUBLISHER: Ibadan, Nigeria : Daystar Press, 1976.

AUTHOR: Okorocha, Cyril C.
TITLE: The meaning of religious conversion in Africa : the case of the Igbo of Nigeria
PUBLISHER: Aldershot [England] ; Brookfield, USA : Avebury, c1987

AUTHOR: Iloanusi, Obiakoizu A
TITLE: Myths of the creation of man and the origin of death in Africa a study in Igbo traditional culture and other African cultures
PUBLISHER: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1984

AUTHOR: Ejizu, Christopher I
TITLE: Ofo, Igbo ritual symbol
PUBLISHER: Enugu, Nigeria : Fourth Dimension, 1986.

AUTHOR: Jinehu, E. D
TITLE: The Osu caste in our society
PUBLISHER: Enugu [Nigeria] : Tudor & Group Printers, 1981.

AUTHOR: Odiegwu, Donatus M. P.
TITLE: The relationship between Igbo traditional spiritual values and the Igbo spiritan religious life, yesterday and today
PUBLISHER: Pontifica Universitas Gregoriana, Facultas Theologiae, Apud Institutum Spiritualitatis, 1985.

AUTHOR: Arinze, Francis A.
TITLE: Sacrifice in Ibo religion
PUBLISHER: [Ibadan, Nigeria] Ibadan University Press, 1970.

AUTHOR: Agu, Charles Chikezie
TITLE: Secularization in Igboland : socio-religious change and its challenges to the Church among the Igbo
PUBLISHER: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1989

AUTHOR: Mozia, Michael Ifeanyinachukwu.
TITLE: Solidarity in the church and solidarity among the Igbos Nigeria : anthropo-theological study
PUBLISHER: Rome : Tipografica "Leberit", 1987, c1982.

AUTHOR: Onunwa, Udobata
TITLE: Studies in Igbo traditional religion
PUBLISHER: Uruowulu-Obosi, Anambra State, Nigeria : Pacific Publishers, 1990

AUTHOR: Nwoga, Donatus Ibe
TITLE: The Supreme God as stranger in Igbo religious thought
PUBLISHER: Ahiazu Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria : Hawk Press, 1984

AUTHOR: Anijielo, Chukwuma Anthony
TITLE: Theological investigation into fear of mystical forces : with special reference to the Igbos
PUBLISHER: Leverkusen-Opladen : Borengasser, 1984

AUTHOR: Dine, George Uchechukwu
TITLE: Traditional leadership as service among the Igbo of Nigeria : (anthropo-theological approach)
PUBLISHER: Rome : [Pont. Universita Lateranense], 1983.

AUTHOR: Osuji, Chuks.
TITLE: What is Ikenga?
PUBLISHER: Owerri, Imo State : Opinion Research and Communications, 1986

AUTHOR: Eneje, Jeremiah Chinegwu.
TITLE: A book of local customs, 1 : Obioma community
PUBLISHER: Enugu, Anambra State, Nigeria : Delta Publications, 1988

AUTHOR: Onyeneke, Augustine O.
TITLE: The dead among the living : masquerades in Igbo society
PUBLISHER: Nimo, Nigeria : Holy Ghost Congregation, Aachen, W. Germany : Institute of Missiology, 1987

AUTHOR: Enekwe, Ossie Onuora
TITLE: Igbo masks : the oneness of ritual and theatre
PUBLISHER: Lagos : Dept. of Culture, Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, c1987

AUTHOR: Maduekwe, Joseph Chukwu
TITLE: Umudioka : an identity of vital angles of ancient Igbo wisdom
PUBLISHER: [Enugu?] : Swell Publishers, 1991

AUTHOR: Egboh, Edmund Onyemeke.
TITLE: Community development efforts in Igboland
PUBLISHER: Onitsha, Nigeria : Etukokwu Press, 1987

AUTHOR: Anigbo, Osmund A. C.
TITLE: Commensality and human relationship among the Igbo ethnographic study of Ibagwa Aka, Igboeze L.G.A. Anambra State, Nigeria
PUBLISHER: Nsukka : University of Nigeria Press, 1987

AUTHOR: Ejiofor, Pita N. O.
TITLE: Cultural revival in Igboland
PUBLISHER: Onitsha [Nigeria] : University Pub. Co., c1984

AUTHOR: Onyeocha, Anthony Ekendu.
TITLE: Family apostolate in Igboland
PUBLISHER: Roma : [Citta nuova della P.A.M.O.M.], 1983.

AUTHOR: Amadiume, Ifi.
TITLE: Male daughters, female husbands : gender and sex in an African society
PUBLISHER: London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1987.

AUTHOR: Nwosu, Obiekezie Vic.
TITLE: Our roots : Osumenyi in perspective
PUBLISHER: Lagos : Markson Nig. Ltd. 1986

AUTHOR: Dike, Azuka A.
TITLE: The resilience of Igbo culture : a case study of Awka town
PUBLISHER: Enugu, Nigeria : Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1985.

AUTHOR: Ekejiuba, Felicia Ifeoma
TITLE: Tradition and transition in Eastern Nigeria, 1775-1975: a paradigm of socio-economic change
PUBLISHER: Harvard Archives: HU 90.11123 Harvard Depository

AUTHOR: Emeh, B. B. O.
TITLE: Treasures of Nnobi.
PUBLISHER: Enugu : Ochumba Press, 1984

AUTHOR: Oraka, Louis Nnamdi.
TITLE: The foundations of Igbo studies : a short history of the study of Igbo language and culture
PUBLISHER: Onitsha, University Pub. Co., 1983

AUTHOR: Okonkwo, M. N.
TITLE: A complete course in Igbo grammar : for secondary schools teacher training colleges
PUBLISHER: Lagos : Macmillan Nigeria, 1977.

AUTHOR: Okoreaffia, C. O.
TITLE: Elements of Igbo language studies
PUBLISHER: Nsukka : University of Nigeria

AUTHOR: Emenanjo, E. Nolue.
TITLE: Elements of modern Igbo grammar : a descriptive approach
PUBLISHER: Ibadan : Oxford University Press, 1978

AUTHOR: Igwe, G. E
TITLE: Igbo language course
PUBLISHER: Ibadan [Nigeria] Oxford University Press, 1967-70.

AUTHOR: Nwachukwu, P. Akujuoobi.
TITLE: Towards an Igbo literary standard
PUBLISHER: Published by Kegan Paul International, 1983.

AUTHOR: Nwachukwu, P. Akujuoobi.
TITLE: Readings on the Igbo verb
PUBLISHER Onitsha, Nigeria : Africana-FEP Publishers, c1983

AUTHOR: Uwalaka, M. A. A. N.
TITLE: The Igbo verb : a semantico-syntactic analysis
PUBLISHER: Wien : AFRO-Pub, 1988.

AUTHOR: Ikonne, Chidi
TITLE: Chaakpii : a study of Igbo folktales
PUBLISHER: Owerri, Nigeria : Pen Paper Publications, 1992.

AUTHOR: Okafor, F. U.
TITLE: Igbo philosophy of law
PUBLISHER: Enugu, Nigeria : Fourth Dimension Pub. Co., 1992.

AUTHOR: Uchendu, Victor Chikezie.
TITLE: The Igbo of southeast Nigeria,
PUBLISHER: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1965]

AUTHOR: Dike, K. Onwuka
TITLE: The Aro of south-eastern Nigeria, 1650-1980 : a study of socio -economic formation and transformation in Nigeria
PUBLISHER: Ibadan : University Press, 1990

AUTHOR: Amadiume, Ifi
TITLE: Afrikan matriarchal foundations : the Igbo case
PUBLISHER: London, U.K. : Karnak House, 1987.

AUTHOR: Nze, Chukwuemeka B.
TITLE: Aspects of African communalism
PUBLISHER: Onitsha, Nigeria : Veritas Publishers, 1989.

AUTHOR: Agbamuche, Josephine N. C
TITLE: Customary marriage in Akwukwu-Igbo
PUBLISHER: Ifako-Bariga : Unicom Enterprises (Nig.), [1981]

AUTHOR: Nkwoh, Marius
TITLE: Igbo cultural heritage
PUBLISHER: Enugu, Nigeria : University Pub. Co., c1984

AUTHOR: Njoku, John E. Eberegbulam.
TITLE: The Igbos of Nigeria : ancient rites, changes, and survival
PUBLISHER: Lewiston, NY : E. Mellen Press, c1990.

AUTHOR: Edeh, Emmanuel M. P.
TITLE: Towards an Igbo metaphysics
PUBLISHER: Chicago : Loyola University Press, c1985.

AUTHOR: Oguine, P., Mrs.
TITLE: Folk-tales from Igboland
PUBLISHER: Ibadan, Nigeria : Evans Bros. (Nigeria Publishers), 1986

AUTHOR: Ugochuwu, Mrs. T. Meniru and Mrs. P. Oguine
TITLE: Omalinze, a book of Igbo folk-tales
PUBLISHER: Ibadan ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.

AUTHOR: Umeasiegbu, Rems Nna
TITLE: Words are sweet : Igbo oral literature
PUBLISHER: Nairobi, Kenya : East African Pub. House, 1980.


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