Root That Binds is an effort to re-examine the state of affairs among the Ngwa people of Nigeria; and in a larger way to explore the modern maladies - political, social and economic - of the nation of Nigeria

Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural...