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Igbo/european Contact; Its Socio-political Effects On The Igbo
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1.5 DIVISION OF WORK
This work is broadly divided into five chapters with some sub-sections each.
Chapter
One serves as an introduction of what we have set out to do in this
work. It presents a clear exposé of what the problems we have set out to
handle in this topic is all about. In addition, it gives an outline of
our reasons and purpose of writing this work and explains the actual
methodology we used in the bid to achieve the desired result.
Chapter
Two dwells on a review of some literatures and authors who have said
something in relation to this our topic. It discusses them based on the
different aspects or points of view from which they had aired their
opinions, giving us an insight into the fact that many have observed and
said something concerning these contacts we wish to discuss.
Chapter
Three discusses in details the three major schemes of Igbo European
contact with some issues surrounding them while Chapter four dwells on
the positive and negative influences of these contacts. They can be seen
as the heart of this work for in them the contacts and their effects
are brought to fore. The Igbo socio-political situations, as it concerns
our reasons for this write-up was also discussed here. We must note
here that the historical contacts of the Igbos and the European world is
still on, as such, its effects is bound to continually increase,
positively or negatively as the case may be.
Finally, chapter five
dwells on a critical examination and an evaluation of the many facts
that have been presented in chapter four. It also suggests ways for the
Igbos to forge ahead.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
A project like
this needs so much of pure historical foundations so that it may be more
effectively handled. This not withstanding, there seems to be only a
few of such works available to us. Most of the works to be seen on the
historical contact of the Europeans with Nigeria and with the Igbos in
particular seem to be written by the west or with their influence. Such
works, as we know, can scarcely present the distinct problems,
constituted to the Igbos by the European colonial masters. More often,
it presents the European man as being explicitly caring for the good and
growth of the African. In the face of all these, this work has to
depend on the available texts dealing on the European/Igbo contact.
Other secondary texts seeking to make a justification or an appraisal of
those colonial contacts with the Africans in general were also taken
into great consideration. The works concerning African/European contacts
were accepted because the Igbos as a group also fall within the
confines of the African continents.
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