The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku

Index

Index Aba, 111 Accra, 16 Achebe, Chinua, 102, 103 Achebe, Nwando, 9, 10, 12 adolescence, 65 Aesthetic Movement, 80 African clubs, 115 African nationalism, 74, 75, 151, 157, 159, 163 age-grades, 82, 168 agriculture, African, 42 Ahebe Ugbabe, 10 Ajen, Nii, 10 Akosa, Chike, 93, 100, 101, 102 Aku, O.Dazi (pseud. J. M. StuartYoung ), 90, 141 Ala (earth goddess), 98 Alderson, David, 11 Aldrich, Robert, 5, 6 Algiers, 77 Ali, Duse Mohamed, 75, 110 Amadiume, Ifi, 8–9, 10, 12; Male Daughters, Female Husbands, 8, 12 Anderson, Linda, 11 Anglican Church (Onitsha), 4 anthropology. See ethnography anticolonialism, 108, 116, 151, 158, 163, 166 Arabian oral tradition, 151 architecture, 4 Ardwick (Manchester), 22, 31, 118, 160 Ardwick Green, 121 athleticism, 135 avant garde, 148, 149, 158 Azikiwe, Nnamdi (Zik), 3, 75, 101, 110, 116, 140, 150, 152, 159, 160, 162, 163 Back Kay Street (Manchester), 25, 32, 73, 119, 121, 123, 130, 132 Basden, G. T., 8 Bastian, Misty, 98 Biafran War, 162 binary oppositions, 6, 12, 13, 14, 18, 69 Binyon, Lawrence, 144 biography, 3, 13, 14, 17–20 blackmail, 57 Bleys, Rudi, 6, 10, 14, 165 Blyden, Edward W., 162 Boer War, 33, 136 Booth, Charles, 26, 28, 29, 129 Booth, William, 26, 35, 120, 137 Bosah, Akunne Alfred, 80 Bosah, Onwuije Hayford, 80, 83, 98, 99, 100, 147 Bosah, S. I., 91, 92, 98, 99, 101, 103, 104, 162–63 Bosie. See Douglas, Lord Alfred bourgeoisie, 7, 15, 38, 40, 50, 52, 54, 76, 77, 83, 96, 106, 166, 167 Bridges, Robert, 130, 139, 140, 144, 145, 153, 155 Bristow, Joseph, 5, 6, 7, 65, 71 British Empire, 3, 15–16, 136, 109, 141, 165, 167. See also imperialism British Supernaturalists’ Lyceum Union, 86 Brolly, William L., 113, 114, 118 Brooke, Rupert, 76 Brooker, Peter, 145 Budapest, 77 Burke, Timothy, 36, 54 Burton, Antoinette, 7, 9, 17, 33 Burton, Richard, 166 Butler, Josephine, 70 Caine, Hall, 150 Calabar, 16 227 Callaway, Helen, 163 Cambridge Senior Examinations, 141 Carpenter, Edward, 25, 71, 76, 77, 135, 147 Casely Hayford, J. E., 162 Casement, Roger, 76, 78 celibacy, 135, 139, 147 chiefs, 3, 4, 15, 34, 99 Chorlton-on-Medlock (Manchester), 96 Christ the King College (Onitsha), 113 Christian Spiritual Hall, 23 Christianity, 14, 23, 40, 100, 165; Anglican , 160; Evangelical, 70; Nonconformist , 23, 127; Roman Catholic, 112, 113, 114, 166 Church Missionary House, 35 class system (British), 7, 24–33, 72, 106, 114, 115, 118, 128–30, 165; and empire, 35, 37, 51; and gender, 132; middleclass values, 23–5, 26, 29, 32, 35, 51, 53, 70, 79, 126, 130–2, 167; “poor whites,” 33, 36, 38, 51, 55; white-collar crime, 22, 30; white-collar workers, 110; working-class autobiography, 128–29, 131; working-class life, 3–4, 15–17, 18, 19, 20, 25–9, 31–32, 34, 47, 57, 78, 119, 120, 126–28, 131, 137, 167; working -class respectability, 28, 132. See also clerks; slum life; slum writing claustrophobia, 160, 161 clerks: African, 3, 15, 103; British, 16, 22, 25, 28–30, 33, 52 Clinton family (Calabar), 75 Clough, Raymond Gore, 44, 47, 48, 49 Coker, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 141–2 colonial officials, 3, 4, 12, 33, 75, 78, 90, 112, 113, 117, 161, 165 colonial rule, 4, 13–15, 37, 44, 49, 50, 53, 74, 76, 78, 87, 107, 110, 155, 157, 165, 169; and archives, 13, 14, 165; and education policy, 110, 111, 112, 115; protest against, 49; and settlers, 7, 120, 137; and taxation, 49, 113 commodities, 4; and African consumers, 4, 38–45, 46, 47, 55, 100, 113; and British consumers, 28–29, 34, 40; and British traders in West Africa, 38–45; imported trade goods, 38, 41, 44–5, 56, 92, 99, 103, 104, 109 Conakry (French Guinea), 56, 57, 87 Conrad, Joseph, 43, 155 228 w Index consumers. See commodities Cook, Thomas, 77 Cooper, Frederick, 7, 17, 18 Corelli, Marie, 150 Corvo, Baron (pseud. Frederick Rolfe), 81 Cottrell, Harry, 37 credit, 56 Croft-Cooke, Rupert, 64, 68 Crossick, Geoffrey, 29 Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, 35, 36, 37–8 cultural nationalism, 109, 110, 116, 120 d’Arch Smith, Timothy, 72, 80, 126 Decadent Movement, 76, 129, 131, 145, 146, 148, 154 Deemin, James, 37, 41 degeneration, theories of, 35, 51, 52, 53, 70, 110, 120, 127, 129–32, 137. See also miscegenation dirt, 35, 36, 38, 135; and empire, 29, 37, 40, 42, 51. See also soap Dixcove (Ghana), 50 Dollimore, Jonathan, 164 domesticity, 7, 78 Dominica, 113 Douglas, Alfred...