The Fathers of My Children: The Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria describes the ancestral origin of the Umorens and the existing lineal connection with all Africans in the Diaspora, regardless of their different migrational pathways in which they found themselves outside of Africa, particularly in North America. The book is also a description of the total African experience throughout human history and of the human motivation in the African voluntary and involuntary migrations. The causes and effects of such migrations are delineated to include the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Partition of Africa, and the Colonization and Decolonization of Africa. In part, it is a story of the African holocaust, which spans over four hundred years. While the book does not call for an African retreat from the New Wave of globalism and the individual quest for greener pastures, it serves to remind all Africans of the need to reverse African economic and cultural deprivation, the decay of the African villages and traditional lifestyles through their renewed Africanism that connects one to another and rebuilds the communities they left behind.
Circa l’autore
This author, Joseph A. Umoren, Ph D, is a practicing health-care professional in Washington, DC, area. He is a graduate of American University with a doctorate degree in educational administration with a strong interest in cultural diversity and multicultural education. His academic background also includes two master’s degrees in industrial technical education and personnel administration and a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He is the author of “Democracy and Ethnic Diversity in Nigeria, ” published by the University Press of America. Also, having authored several scholarly journal articles in economics and health-care, he has served as a guest speaker in health-care conventions and has provided several staff training seminars relating to health-care administration and cultural diversity in organizations. His current book, entitled “The Fathers of My Children: The Genealogy of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria, ” is motivated by his strong view in the preservation of each individual culture and tradition in the age of globalism.
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