Elizabeth Isichei
Nigerian academic and historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Mary Isichei is a New Zealand author, historian and academic. Early life, family and education Isichei was born Elizabeth Mary Allo in Tauranga, New Zealand, on 22 March 1939, the daughter of Albert and Lorna Allo. She was educated at Tauranga College, and attained the highest marks in New Zealand in the 1955 university entrance scholarship examinations. She went on to study at the University of Canterbury, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960 and won a senior university scholarship. She then completed a Master of Arts with first-class honours in history at Victoria University of Wellington in 1961. Her honours thesis formed the basis of her book, Political Thinking and Social Experience, published in 1964. She won a Commonwealth Scholarship and, after a brief period as a temporary assistant lecturer in history at the University of Canterbury, undertook doctoral studies at Nuffield College, Oxford. Her DPhil thesis, completed in 1967, was titled Quakers and society in Victorian England.
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- A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present (1997) (175)
- THE MAITATSINE RISINGS IN NIGERIA 1980-85: A REVOLT OF THE DISINHERITED* (1987) (81)
- A History of African Societies to 1870 (1997) (55)
- Benin and the Europeans 1485–1897 (1972) (45)
- History of West Africa since 1800 (1977) (37)
- Igbo worlds : an anthology of oral histories and historical descriptions (1978) (32)
- Voices of the Poor in Africa (2002) (32)
- The Ibo People and the Europeans. The Genesis of a Relationship to 1906 (1973) (30)
- The Religious Traditions of Africa: A History (2004) (28)
- Varieties of Christian experience in Nigeria (1982) (23)
- Seven Varieties of Ambiguity: Some Patterns of Igbo* Response To Christian Missions (1970) (21)
- Studies in the history of Plateau State, Nigeria (1982) (20)
- The Meaning of Religious Conversion in Africa (1989) (18)
- Idanre and other Poems (1969) (17)
- Entirely for God: The Life of Michael Iwene Tansi (1981) (17)
- Historical Change in an Ibo Polity: Asaba to 1885 (1969) (16)
- Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland 1857–1914 (1973) (15)
- Ibo and Christian Beliefs: Some Aspects of a Theological Encounter (1969) (15)
- The Quest For Social Reform in the Context of Traditional Religion: A Neglected Theme of West African History (1978) (11)
- From Sect to Denomination in English Quakerism, with Special Reference to the Nineteenth Century (1964) (6)
- Change in Anaguta Traditional Religion (1991) (5)
- On Masks and Audible Ghosts: Some Secret Male Cults in Central Nigeria (1987) (4)
- Some Ambiguities in the Academic Study of Religion (1993) (3)
- Changes and Continuities 1906–39 (1982) (3)
- Parente et Mariage chez les Rukuba (1977) (2)
- Oral Traditions from the Gambia, Vol. I: Mandinka Griots (1983) (2)
- ON MASKS AND AUDIBLE GHOSTS: SOME SECRET MALE CULTS IN CENTRAL NIGERIA1 (1988) (2)
- Organisation and power in the Society of Friends (1852-1859) (1965) (2)
- Perceptions of God and the Churches in Obudu (1975) (1)
- CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA A History of the Church in Africa. By BENGT SUNDKLER and CHRISTOPHER STEED. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix+1232. £85 (ISBN 0-521-58342-x). (2001) (1)
- Myth, gender and society in pre-colonial Asaba (1991) (1)
- Education and the Growth of Social Differentiation (1976) (1)
- On Being Invisible: An Historical Perspective of the Anaguta and Their Neighbors (1991) (1)
- The Growth of Christianity in Igboland (1976) (0)
- Dark Vocation: Religion in the Life and Work of Two New Zealand Creative Artists - James K. Baxter and Colin McCahon (1996) (0)
- Visions and Visionaries. The Search for Alternative Forms of Authority Among Catholic Conservatives / Visions et visionnaires. La recherche de formes alternatives d'autorité chez les conservateurs catholiques (1991) (0)
- Some Patterns of Social and Economic Change (1976) (0)
- The History of Ideas: The Igbos’ Perception of their Changing World (1976) (0)
- CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA A History of the Church in Africa. By BENGT SUNDKLER and CHRISTOPHER STEED. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix+1232. £85 (ISBN 0-521-58342-x). (2001) (0)
- Entirely for God: The Life of Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (2000) (0)
- The End of Colonialism: 1945–1960 (1976) (0)
- An Obscure Man: Pa Antonio in Lagos (c.1800–c.1880) (1982) (0)
- Social and Economic Change: The Growth of Social Polarisation (1976) (0)
- The Dawn of Igbo History (1976) (0)
- OKOROCHA, C. Cyril, The Meaning of Religious Conversion in Africa, Avebury, Aldershot, 1987, xv, 352 pp., $ 87.50, 05 06 05030 7 (1989) (0)
- Political and Economic Change: The Middle Years (1976) (0)
- The Crisis of the Middle Years: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (1976) (0)
- Epilogue: Thirteen Years, 1960–1973 (1976) (0)
- Does Christianity Empower Women? The Case of the Anaguta of Central Nigeria (2021) (0)
- Colonial Government and its Critics (1976) (0)
- MYTH, GENDER AND SOCIETY IN PRE- (2016) (0)
- Igbos Abroad in the Era of the Slave Trade (1976) (0)
- Posthumous Publication of Study of Igbo Women [Book Review] (2002) (0)
- More for the Achebe Industry (1983) (0)
- The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger: journals and notices of the native missionaries accompanying the Niger expedition of 1857–1859 (1969) (0)
- Igbo Resistance to Colonial Conquest (1976) (0)
- Igbo Society in the Middle Years (1976) (0)
- The Religious Traditions of Africa (2004) (0)
- The Monastic Alternative: Father Cyprian Tansi, O.C.S.O. (1903–64) (1982) (0)
- Christianity, Historiography in Africa (2021) (0)
- Christians and Martyrs in Bonny, Ora and Lokoja (c.1874–c.1902) (1982) (0)
- Igbo Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (1976) (0)
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