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Research Interests Africa, ethno-economic history, religion, symbolism. Doctoral dissertation on "Sociocultural Organization and Locational Strategies of Transportation Entrepreneurs: An Ethnoeconomic History of the Nnewi Igbo of Nigeria" (Stella B. Silverstein, Boston University, 1983)

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Publications * "The Art of Nigerian Business: Igbo Entrepreneurial Innovation Using Family organization" In Anthropology and International Business: Studies in Third World Societies (1986) Papers Presented: "Igbo Models of Socioeconomic Organization," University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1978. "Transitions in the Role of the Elderly in Nigeria" Northeastern Anthropological Society (NAS), 1980. "Ethnohistory of Igbo Stratification," African Studies Association (ASA), 1981. "Historical Systems of Entrepreneurial Training Among the Igbo," American Anthropological Association (AAA), 1983. "Urban Hierarchy Effects on Transport Expansion & Economic Change," I.C.A.E.S. Quebec. 1983. "Ethnic & Media Education: impact on Cultural Economics" I.C.A.E.S. Quebec. 1983. "Historical, Cultural & Situational Causes of Igbo Investment in Transport," A.A.A.S., 1983. "Ifa divination Historico-Symbolic Structural Analysis," ASA, 1983. "Ethnohistory of Igbo Stratification," ASA, 1983. "Igbo Masquerades: Historical Forms of Social Control" NAS, 1983. "Urbanism, Ethnic Associations & Economics: Nnewi Igbo Businessmen," AAA, 1984. "Apprenticeship, Transport, & Igbo Educational Culture," AAA, 1985. "Nnewi Igbo Women's Associations; Locational Organization & Charters for Behavior," ASA 1985. "Small Urban Rural Communities, Development; Nnewi Igbo Development of Transport Economy," ASA 1986.

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