About the Author: Professor Emeka Aniagolu is from Enugu State, Nigeria. He attended the renowned high school in Nigeria, Government College Umuahia. He did his undergraduate work in Political Science at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and his graduate work in Political Science-African and African American Studies, at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director for the Black World Studies of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, where he teaches African and African-American History and Politics.
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ABOUT BOOK: Co-Whites (How & Why white women "betrayed" the struggle for Racial Equality In the United States)Co-Whites discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems. Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the United States, starting from the colonial and antebellum periods, leading up to the American Civil War and Reconstruction, through the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, to the present day.
The work explores how white American women, in their search and struggle for gender equality in the United States, related to three principal streams in America's socioeconomic and political history:
White supremacy, women of color-especially African American women, and the freedom and civil rights struggle for racial equality. The United States has irreversibly become a multiracial and multicultural democracy and white supremacy has become untenable; however, Aniagolu concludes that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States.
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Well-researched and lucidly written, the work makes intellectually and historically coherent a subject matter often muttered in small circles and that takes the form of scholarly 'civil wars' inside 'Women's Studies' between white American and African American women scholars and schools of thought. The work grapples with a serious issue in light of the 2008 presidential elections in the United States, offering insightful explanations certain to evoke lively debate in university classrooms, amongst professorial colleagues, and in the general public.
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Hardcover: 354 pages
Publisher: University Press Of America (December 13, 2010)
The African Youth League is the largest student organization in Ohio State University- one of the largest Universities in the World.
The purpose of today's feature is to afford you- our listeners the ability to assess the quality of introspection amongst African students here at the Ohio State University.
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African markets provide a unique variety of food products and other services unlike any other in Ohio. More importantly, African markets make it possible for Nigerians in the Diaspora to enjoy our rich cultural heritage beyond the borders of our homeland.
And so this week, NIDO OHIO is doing a series titled THE NAIJA SHOPPER (Columbus Edition) dedicated to highlighting the African markets that Nigerians patronize and value in Central Ohio.
We begin our journey in East Columbus...
KANESHIE COMPLEX MARKET
Billy Richard Agyeman has owned and managed Keneshie Complex Market for 8 years. Keneshie is located at 2543 Franksway Street, Columbus, Ohio, 43232.
For more information on Products and Prices, Please Contact Billy @ Tel. 614.501.1815 or Email: billyagymeman@yahoo.com
AFRICAN MARKET
A family owned business since January of 2010, African Market is located across the street from Kaneshie at located at 4415 Crossroads Center. African Market offers original West African food products at the most competitive price available in Central Ohio. Saihou- a part owner in the family business- challenges shoppers to prove him wrong.
"Everybody agrees we that we have the cheapest prices"
"...we refuse to do copies, Period."... "...we only deal with original stuff"
Saihou- Part owner of family business
So while in the area, be sure to compare services, products and prices as you visit KANESHIE COMPLEX MARKET & AFRICAN MARKET in East Columbus.
Continue to follow us as we discover even more food markets frequented by Naija Shoppers.
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Dr. Angela Frank-Briggs is a lecturer and practicing pediatrician at the University of Port Harcourt teaching hospital. In 2001, Dr Frank-Briggs in collaboration with Professor Felicia U Eke and Dr. Jonathan Ottor MB BS published Childhood Mortality In Port Harcourt, Nigeria in Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. The study's findings were tremedously alarming. The reasearch found that "Out of a total admission of 1777 children, there were 98 deaths (5.1%). Most of the causes of death were preventable. The largest single cause was birth asphyxia (20.4%) followed by malaria (10.2%), anemia (10.2%) and tetanus (9.2%). Neonates predominated accounting for 62 deaths (63.3%) (Frank-Briggs et al, 2001)." I spoke to Dr. Frank-Briggs about the study and the state of Nigeria's healthcare system in general. Enjoy...
A health fair is an educational interactive event designed mainly for outreach with the sole purpose of creating awareness and providing preventive medicine and medical screening to the community.
The benefit of this health fair is to encourage the African community in Diaspora to take their health seriously by making it a priority in their lives.
We wish to stir people to not only cut out some of the foods they eat i.e red meats but also advice them to consider portion control. This is not a burdensome experience, in fact, it is quiet the contrary. It is just a matter of taking a step at a time, sacrificing some time and making a few minute changes that surprisingly go a very long way to adding years to your life.
A health fair is one way we can give back to our community and also a way to inspire others to do the same. Not only in America, but we can take our knowledge and expertise back to Nigeria to not only host events like health fairs but train others that can continue in our footsteps once we leave.
There is a need for health awareness in america but an even greater need in the motherland. If we can get in the habit of giving back, we can do exploits. we can be the change we want to see!
This Article was written by Joanne Mapis
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