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343 A Abacha, 50, 61, 165, 166, 185, 244, 246, 273, 286, 289, 292, 298 Abomination, 79, 81, 317, 321 Abortion, 120 Abubakar, Gen. Abdulsalami, 226, 244 Abuja, 184, 239, 240, 244, 246, 247, 248, 283, 284, 297 Abuse/s, 3, 36, 112, 123, 131, 134–137, 236, 237, 240, 248, 250, 256, 270, 282, 294, 314 Academic discourse, 110, 142 Adaka Boro, Isaac, 50, 106 Administration, xv, 83, 88, 136, 283, 287, 289, 290, 291, 337 Affluence, 166, 248 Africa identity, 17, 75, 154 African culture, 4, 75, 78, 212, 341 African eco-criticism, 24 African environmental history, 17 African fiction, 1, 16, 189 African identities, iv, xvii, 319–320, 322–323, 339 African narratives, 339 African profit, 105, 111, 117 Agary, iii, xiv–xv, 95, 97–107, 109–122, 125, 129–130, 138 Agary, Kaine (-ii Agary) Agbala, 77, 79, 80, 81 Aggression, 50, 111, 210, 280, 295 Agriculture, vii, 7, 9, 114, 164, 298 Agricultural harvest, 79 Alternative vision, 37, 41 Ambivalence, 240, 294, 298 Aminogbe, 241, 255 Êœ˜Ì Ê>˜`Ê>Ê >Þ, iii, 47, 50, 61, 62, 63, 73, 164, 174 Analytic, xv, 110, 142, 144 Ancestors, vi, 26, 27, 80, 81, 165, 167, 275, 277, 281, 320 Ancestral, 7, 37, 167–168, 223, 252, 307, 319 Ancestral lineage, 34 Angst, xvi, 112, 116, 175, 177, 188 Animals, vi, 23–24, 76–78, 84, 87, 91, 99, 114, 130, 143, 149, 253, 254, 264, 268, 283, 290, 291, 304, 311, 325 Antipastoral, 17 Apparatus, 41, 53, 70, 109, 178, 189 Archetypes, 28 Area Boy syndrome, 247 Arid, 4, 5, 18–19, 68, 106, 143, 144, 289, 299, 312 Armah, Ayi Kwei, 26, 28, 49 Armed, iv, 13, 55, 59, 65, 70, 97, 101, 125, 133, 151, 177, 218, 228, 280, 288, 291, 295, 319, 322, 324, 329 Ashawo pikin, 105, 111, 117 Atmosphere, 24, 64, 86, 87, 106, 143, 144, 289, 299, 312 Autobiography, xiv, 48, 72, 139–141, 159 Ayi Kwe Armah (-ii Armah, Ayi Kwei) B Barn, 80, 298, 338 Bastard, 117–118, 293–294 Bell Oil Company, 42 Benin River, 239 Benzene, 119 Betrayal, 1, 12, 115, 119, 183, 322–323, 329–330, 332–333 Biodiversity, 32–33, 38–39, 96, 155, 191, 194, 198, 205, 236, 275, 296, 299, 319–320, 334 Index 344 INDEX Bioregional, 32, 239 Blackmailed, 119 Born throw-ways, 111 Branch Michael, viii, 45, 93 Buell, Lawrence, xviii, 122, 159, 257, 344 Bush, 18, 19, 38, 76, 78, 79, 84, 85, 91, 92, 201, 202, 241, 253, 290, 304, 316, 317, 320, 321, 323, 325, 327, 329, 330, 331, 338 Business tourism, 37 Butake, iv, xvii, 303–318 C Cameroon, iv, xvii, 161–167, 303–305, 311, 315, 318, 337–338 Capitalist, ix–xi, xiii–xiv, 4, 8, 10, 49, 54, 65, 95, 142, 144, 148, 157, 158, 166, 171 Capitalist industrialism (-ii capitalist) Cartographic, 239 Celebrity paradise, 38 Chants, 169, 187, 274, 337 Chaotic, xi, 111, 133, 180, 220 Character, iii, xii, xiv, 2–4, 6, 8, 13, 15–16, 23, 26–28, 34, 40–41, 44, 51, 59–60, 71, 102, 107, 111, 116–117, 121, 127, 140, 181, 305, 311–312, 315, 323, 333 Characterized (-ii Characterizes) Characterizes, 50, 76, 141, 161, 171, 176 Characteristically, 208, 268 Characteristics, 2, 69, 192 Characterization, xiv, 4, 15, 18, 28 Character development, iii, xii, 15 Cheated, 25, 33, 113 Cheryll Glotfelty, x, 124, 162, 198, 261 Chevron, 53, 182, 198, 218, 250, 279 Chief Tobi Ishaka, 42, 43 Children, xvi, 5, 10–11, 18–20, 55, 77, 80, 82, 86–87, 102, 105, 110–111, 117–118, 123, 125, 127, 131–132, 135, 137, 147, 154, 173, 179, 188, 223, 226, 240–242, 249, 255, 257, 265, 274, 277, 279, 293, 301, 307– 308, 312, 313–314, 324, 328 Christianity, vi, 189 Àœ˜ˆViÊnewspaper, 55, 58 Chronological, xv, 110, 117 Chuma-Udeh Ngozi, 337 City, xi, 16, 20–22, 25–26, 27, 35, 42–43, 57–58, 103–104, 114–115, 118, 120, 122, 126, 130–131, 152, 163, 224, 225, 246, 248, 257, 267, 300–301, 330, 331, 337, 338 Cityscape, 20, 330 Clan, 76, 78, 80, 84, 86, 315, 321 Climate, 81–82, 86, 145, 149, 163, 281, 289, 290, 293, 297–298, 300, 313, 319 Coastal, xi, 18–19, 109, 113, 239, 286, 335 Cocks, 24, 88 Colonial Era, xiv, 49, 75–76, 79, 82, 98, 146, 221 Colonialism, 3–10, 12–14, 16, 23–24, 29, 48, 49, 65, 94, 96, 98, 108, 148, 150, 153...

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