Homelessness in Nigeria: Investigating Africa's Housing Crisis - Softcover

Chidebell, Ifeadikanwa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483629635 ISBN 13: 9781483629636

Publisher: XLIBRIS, 2013

Synopsis

Homelessness in Nigeria: Investigating Africa's Housing Crisis, is a daring confrontation of a topic considered taboo in Africa. Equally daring is the nature and depth of information it provides through a holistic exploration of the subject of homelessness as it occurs in Africa and in the majority of the poor nations of the modern world. There is a strong emphasizes in this book of the dominant roles of culture, religion and sectional politics in the creation and perpetuation of Africa's homelessness and housing crises. And insights into this dynamic unveil answers to crucial, unanswered questions on homelessness in Africa as no known existing literature ever has. Homelessness in Nigeria is indeed a vital reference- as well as literary hand book for all who seek knowledge on African cultures, and, indeed, on cultures of the general Global South nations, and even more pointedly in matters of culture associated with housing. Professionals from all walks of life will thus find this a source of much insight in understanding regional diversity with regard to values relative to shelter deprivation.

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About the Author:

Author Bio Ifeadikanwa Chidebell (Mokeme) was born at Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, and educated at the University of Lagos, CAVILAM - l'Université de Clermont-Ferrand, Vichy France, and Stony Brook University, New York. She holds a the M. Phil (Doctor of Arts) in French Curriculum Studies, MSW in Social Welfare Policy Studies, MA in French Literature, and B.ED in French/English Education. Ife' taught French Language, Literature and Education at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Le Centre Culturel Français au Nigeria at Kaduna, the Nigerian National Defence Academy, Kaduna, and also French and the Humanities at the United Nations Int'l School, New York, until 2000. Since 2009 she has also taught African Cultural Sensitivity at various private and public institutions and organizations in Iowa State. Keen on Social Policy issues affecting Africans within the African continent, and the Diaspora, Ife' has already published West African Spirituality for Social Work Practice (Authorhouse, 2004). Currently, Ife heads the Bureau for African Families, a non-profit organization that provides culturally sensitive programs for New Americans. Professor Nonso Chidebell-Emordi, Professor Caleb C. Chidebell, Dr. La Bonte Chidebell-Okpi and Solomon Chidebell-Gb are Ife's children.

About this edition

• Publisher: XLIBRIS
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1483629635
• ISBN 13: 9781483629636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 492