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Non-Human Agency in Igbo Cultural History: Affective Entanglements between Humans, Animals, Spirits, and Technology

Rosemary Akpan — Department of History, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA | ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

This study examines the emotional connections between people, animals, spirits, and technology in Igbo cosmology, literature, and modern culture. The paper tends not to completely separate humans from non-humans in Igbo thought. It acknowledges the agency of spirits (mmụọ), sacred …

Consecrated Spaces and Ecospirituality in Amagu-Ezza South, Southeastern Nigeria

Kingsley C. Ezeuwa — Marquette University | ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Amagu is one of the multiple communities that constitute the Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Its people, from antiquity, have shown conspicuous reverence for environmental spaces such as Ogbuiyioke forest reserve, and Uruenyim, which arguably remains …

Ofo na Ogu: The Cardinal Principle Guiding the Igbo Traditional Justice System, Norms and Values

Rosemary Akpan — Department of History, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Ononiwu A. Oparah — Department of History & International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria | The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Ofo na Ogu occupies a central position in the Igbo traditional justice system, embodying the ethical norms and values that guide communal life and the pursuit of justice. Rooted in the principle that “he who seeks equity must come with …

Tag: Marquette University

Non-Human Agency in Igbo Cultural History: Affective Entanglements between Humans, Animals, Spirits, and Technology

Consecrated Spaces and Ecospirituality in Amagu-Ezza South, Southeastern Nigeria

Ofo na Ogu: The Cardinal Principle Guiding the Igbo Traditional Justice System, Norms and Values

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