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Paradox of Intellectual Bootlegging in Paradox of Dawn for Islam in Eastern Nigeria: A Review
Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe
Article Number - 60F821987E65B | Vol. 2(2), pp. 15-29., July 2021 |
Received: 10 February 2021 | Accepted: 4 April 2021 | Published: 31 July 2021
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Abstract
The Igbo of Southeast
Nigeria are mainly Christians by contemporary religious definition. Islam never
penetrated Igboland in pre-colonial times as were the cases of Northern Nigeria
and the Yoruba of the Southwest. Indeed up to the point the Igbo were engaged
in a civil war with the rest of the country between 1967 and 1970 Islam was not
only an alien religion among the Igbo but was abhorred. However, following the
defeat of the Igbo in the civil war, Muslims seized the opportunity of the
economic hardship that greeted the Igbo and their subsequent alienation from
political power to gradually penetrate the area and began to raise a few
cluster of adherents. This is the picture Professor Egodi Uchendu sought to
present in her book: Dawn for Islam in
Eastern Nigeria of the Department of History and International Studies,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The present work is therefore a critical
intellectual review of the book. The appraisal is based broadly on three
conceptual historical themes namely: methodology, source material analysis, and
authenticity of the projected assumptions objectively applied through
historical methodological approach. In the course of the analysis the work, it
was found to be lacking in originality with sumptuous evidence of suspected
plagiarism. Originally set in historical timeline, the author in an attempt to
cover up this obvious intellectual misdemeanor sought to seek refuge under
social science methodological approach. In the pursuit of the analysis, the
writer tried as much as he could to limit the review to a cursory rather than
surgical analysis of the work since applying the latter could mean engaging on
the re-writing of the book. Keywords: Igboland,
Islam, Nigeria, Igbo, Hausa.
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Authors
Nwankwo
Tony Nwaezeigwe
Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
E-mail: [email protected]
How to Cite this Article
Nwaezeigwe, N. T. (2021). Paradox of Intellectual
Bootlegging in Paradox of Dawn for Islam
in Eastern Nigeria: A Review. Archives of Political Science Research, 2(2):15-29.
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