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| Title: | From the heart of masculinity: Ogbodo-Uke women's masking |
| Authors: | Okafor, Chinyere Grace |
| Keywords: | Ogbodo-Uke mask performance
Women, Nigeria
African masks
Women's Studies
African women
Gender roles
Izzi culture |
| Issue Date: | Oct-1994 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Citation: | Okafor, Chinyere Grace. (1994). From the heart of masculinity: Ogbodo-Uke women's masking. -- Research in African Literatures, Vol. 25, No. 3, p.7-17. |
| Series/Report no.: | v.25
no.3 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the origins and performance of Ogbodo-Uke mask by women of Aba community of Abakiliki. Author shows that masking classified originaly as a male affair, is organized, produced, and performed by women now, and this is an expression of independence and gender cooperation. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1962 |
| ISSN: | 0034-5210 |
| Appears in Collections: | Articles and Book Chapters
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