DP: Adichie Resources: The Stories

Think about: Masks, pan-African relationships

“Pan-Africanism” - wikipedia

The Colonization of Africa

YouTube video “A brief history of colonization of Africa”

Think about: religious background; Biafran War

All via Opposing Viewpoints: (Copy titles exactly)

• “Nigeria’s Troubled Years” (Nigeria-Biafran war)

• “Nigeria and the Biafran War: Ending the silence”

• “Fifty years later, Nigeria has failed to learn from its horrific civil war”

• “Deep political and religious rifts disrupt the harmony of Nigerian towns

Think about: Nigerian emigration (to U.S.) and/or abuses of power in Nigeria (police, military, paramilitary?)

Websites:

• “Nigerian elections threatened by violence and abuse of power”

• “Power to the people or power in the people….”

• “Democracy and the performance of power”

Think about: Women's rights in Nigeria; masks as motif (and their role in European art? The theory that the Cubist movement was inspired largely by African influence)

Try the History Reference Center database > “Nigeria and gender”

Evolution of Form (about African art) via Christie's

Women’s Education in Nigeria

Some pages in this doc: British Council for Gender Rights, Nigeria 2012

Via Opposing Viewpoints:  

• “Nigeria Must Fulfill Its Commitment to Protect Women's Rights”

Think about: History/pattern of America as the Promised Land vs. the reality; the emigre returns home; history of saves of immigration

(What did they want? What did they get and not get? How were they received?)

Via Opposing Viewpoints:

• “The Four American narratives”

• “America, the Not So Promised Land”

Britannica - “Modern mass migration”

Website (The Atlantic) - “The odds vs realities of the American dream”