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S EMERGENT E RI O T S HI MASCULINITIES N A C RI F A Gendered Power and Social Change in W E the Biafran Atlantic Age N N D U B U E Z E L . M B A H Emergent Masculinities NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN, ALLEN ISAACMAN, AND DEREK R. PETERSON David William Cohen and E. S. Atieno Michelle R. Moyd, Violent Intermediaries Odhiambo, The Risks of Knowledge Abosede A. George, Making Modern Girls Belinda Bozzoli, Theatres of Struggle and Alicia C. Decker, In Idi Amin’s Shadow the End of Apartheid Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Conjugal Rights Gary Kynoch, We Are Fighting the World Shobana Shankar, Who Shall Enter Stephanie Newell, The Forger’s Tale Paradise? Jacob A. Tropp, Natures of Colonial Emily S. Burrill, States of Marriage Change Todd Cleveland, Diamonds in the Rough Jan Bender Shetler, Imagining Serengeti Carina E. 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Webel, The Politics of Disease State of Violence Control Paolo Israel, In Step with the Times Kara Moskowitz, Seeing Like a Citizen Emergent Masculinities Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age w Ndubueze L. Mbah OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS ATHENS Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 ohioswallow.com © 2019 by Ohio University Press All rights reserved To obtain permission to quote, reprint, or otherwise reproduce or distribute material from Ohio University Press publications, please contact our rights and permissions department at (740) 593-1154 or (740) 593-4536 (fax). Printed in the United States of America Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ™ 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Mbah, Ndubueze L., 1985- author. Title: Emergent masculinities : gendered power and social change in the Biafran Atlantic age / Ndubueze L. Mbah. Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019028629 | ISBN 9780821423882 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780821423899 (paperback) | ISBN 9780821446850 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Sex role--Nigeria, Eastern--History. | Slave trade--Social aspects--Nigeria, Eastern. | Slave trade--Political aspects--Nigeria, Eastern. | Masculinity--Social aspects--Nigeria, Eastern. | Igbo (African people)--Africa, Eastern--Social life and customs. Classification: LCC HQ1075.5.N6 M33 2019 | DDC 305.3096694--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028629 To Janet, Menna, and Adannaya; And in memory of Ndubueze C. Mbah. Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Gendered Kinship, ca. 1480–1850 31 Political and Economic Backgrounds of a Slaving Society Chapter 2 Military Slaving, ca. 1650–1890 61 The Making of Warrior Masculinities Chapter 3 Gendered Slavery in the Bight of Biafra, ca. 1750–1890 94 A Transatlantic Perspective Chapter 4 Gendered Emancipation, ca. 1860–1940 130 New Ogaranya Masculinities Chapter 5 Revolutionary Masculinities, ca. 1850–1940 158 Female Dissident Sexualities Conclusion 182 Appendix: Lineage Charts 192 Glossary 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 263 Index 305 vii Illustrations MAP I.1 The Bight of Biafra xvii FIGURES I.1 Ohafia war dance 19 1.1 Ikpirikpe drum 44 2.1 Ohafia war dancer 77 4.1 Missionary residence of Rev. Robert Collins, built ca. 1911 146 4.2 Home of Kalu Uwaoma, built ca. 1916 147 A.1 Chiasara matrilineage 192 A.2 Slave lineage integration I 193 A.3 Slave lineage integration II 193 A.4 Slave lineage integration III 194 A.5 Integration of resident strangers 195 A.6 Unyang Uka 196 ix
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