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Surviving the Post–Biafran War by Navigating the Igbo People's Igba‐Boi Apprenticeship Model of Entrepreneurship

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the Nigerian Civil War, the Biafrans started from scratch through trades, mostly adopting the igba‐boi apprenticeship system in Nigeria. This paper examines the impact of the igba‐boi entrepreneurship system in post‐Biafra for the survival of the Igbo identity.
Chiemela Victor Amaechi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Situating Black Reconstruction in the Du Boisian Tradition

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I develop a contradictory argument about Black Reconstruction. First, I argue that Black Reconstruction certainly is a masterpiece, and indeed, perhaps one of Du Bois's greatest works. Second, however, I argue that we ought to view Black Reconstruction in the context of Du Bois's overall corpus of scholarship.
Ali Meghji
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Black Reconstruction After 90 Years

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published one of the most important pieces of historical scholarship from the twentieth century, Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880.
Ali Meghji, José Itzigsohn
wiley   +1 more source

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