Igbo caste practices: persistence and public attitudes in the media

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/2527 http://eprints.org/relation/ispreviewThumbnailVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/2527 http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/2527 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/10/12 2010-11-03 11:57:36 2022-02-09 17:28:30 2011-07-19 16:27:49 thesis show 0 Okwelume Obinna Charles obiiokwelume@ymail.com University of Birmingham Igbo caste practices: persistence and public attitudes in the media unpub HN HM DT 10col_artl Email address obiiokwelume@ymail.com taken from PARC spreadsheet (AH 19/01/2022) Author requested embargo to be lifted - moved to Option A (from Option C ending 2040) and EThOS emailed. (AH 09/02/2022) For over a century, several minority caste groups have suffered discrimination in eastern Nigeria. They include former slaves and servant groups known as osu or ohu as well as other names and are generally referred to as caste groups. Forbidden to associate freely with the freeborn, these groups still maintain their stigma. The origins of the caste groups lie in the past. However, after 1900, they started to struggle for emancipation. Since then, discrimination against them has been abolished many times. Yet the practice remains persistent. At the same time, the discrimination against the caste groups continues to exercise the public and private imagination and it is depicted and discussed in various ways in the media, from newspapers to films and even in internet forums. Using oral sources and commentaries in the media, this thesis argues that Igbo socio-political life has continued to sustain this practice even as it pretends to reject it. The general attitude to discrimination against the caste groups has been that it is barbaric. Yet, the freeborn still find it difficult to embrace them. Reasons for this include a range of fears, but most importantly fear of social ostracism. The thesis argues that the media has engaged in the struggle to change the situation by providing a platform for debate about the practice. However, this has had little impact because of the nature of Igbo socio-political life. 2010-07 2009-11 graduation eng author unchecked This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. full obiiokwelume@ymail.com ubira@lists.bham.ac.uk public University of Birmingham School of History and Cultures, Centre for West African Studies d_ph na 2010-07 graduation