Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Umuahian Connection
- 1 Laying the Foundation: The Fisher Days, 1929–1939
- 2 ‘The Eton of The East’: William Simpson and the Umuahian Renaissance
- 3 Studying the Humanities at Government College, Umuahia
- 4 Young Political Renegades: Nationalist Undercurrents at Government College, Umuahia, 1944–1945
- 5 ‘Something New in Ourselves’: First Literary Aspirations
- 6 The Dangerous Potency of the Crossroads: Colonial Mimicry in Ike, Momah and Okigbo's Reimaginings of the Primus Inter Pares Years
- 7 An Uncertain Legacy: I.N.C. Aniebo and Ken Saro-Wiwa in the Umuahia of the 1950s
- 8 The Will to Shine as One: Affiliation and Friendship beyond the College Walls
- Works Cited
- Appendix 1 The Shining Ones: A Bibliography
- Appendix 2 List of Supplementary Material and Sources available online
- Index
Appendix 2 - List of Supplementary Material and Sources available online
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Umuahian Connection
- 1 Laying the Foundation: The Fisher Days, 1929–1939
- 2 ‘The Eton of The East’: William Simpson and the Umuahian Renaissance
- 3 Studying the Humanities at Government College, Umuahia
- 4 Young Political Renegades: Nationalist Undercurrents at Government College, Umuahia, 1944–1945
- 5 ‘Something New in Ourselves’: First Literary Aspirations
- 6 The Dangerous Potency of the Crossroads: Colonial Mimicry in Ike, Momah and Okigbo's Reimaginings of the Primus Inter Pares Years
- 7 An Uncertain Legacy: I.N.C. Aniebo and Ken Saro-Wiwa in the Umuahia of the 1950s
- 8 The Will to Shine as One: Affiliation and Friendship beyond the College Walls
- Works Cited
- Appendix 1 The Shining Ones: A Bibliography
- Appendix 2 List of Supplementary Material and Sources available online
- Index
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File A: The Eastern Star Vol. 1, No. 4 (1935) school magazine, produced by Reverend Robert Fisher for the now-extinct coalition of five Eastern Nigerian secondary schools.
File B: Photograph of a group of friends at Government College Umuahia (c. 1946-1947). Sitting left to right: Namseh Eno, Chike Momah, Nze Sam Onyewuenyi, ‘Colonel’ Otiteh, and Patrick Ozieh. Standing left to right: Edward Chukwukwere (composer of Government College Umuahia School Anthem), Festus Emeghara, and Ralph Opara. (Courtesy of Chike Momah)
File C: Nnewi District students at Government College Umuahia (c. 1947). Middle row sitting first from left Chike Momah and fourth from left Godwin Momah (brother of Chike Momah). Nnewi is Chike Momah's home town. (Courtesy of Chike Momah)
File D: Government College Umuahia Magazine No. 2 (1948-1949) selected pages, including Chukwuemeka Ike's ‘In Dreamland’. (Courtesy of Chukwuemeka Ike)
File E: Photograph of Niger House, Government College Umuahia (1950). Elechi Amadi
is identified by an arrow; first row centre: I.D. Erekosima, the school's first African Principal. (Courtesy of Elechi Amadi)
File F: Government College Umuahia Magazine No. 4 (1950-1951) selected pages, including a reference to the school's performance of The Mikado. (Courtesy of Kelsey Harrison)
File G: The Mikado programme and cast list from the Government College Umuahia performance (April 1951). (Courtesy of Kelsey Harrison)
File H: Photograph of Government College Umuahia graduates at Ibadan (c. 1953). Elechi Amadi is identified by an arrow. (Courtesy of Elechi Amadi)
File I: The Umuahian 14, 1 (1961), selected pages of the school magazine.
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- Achebe and Friends at UmuahiaThe Making of a Literary Elite, pp. 195 - 196Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015