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Chiadikaobi Okafor

Graduate Student

Biography

I am a fourth-year Doctoral Candidate in African History, with a particular interest in Catholic missionary growth in Africa. My dissertation examines the roles the Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria played in the conversion to, domestication of and the growth of Catholicism in the region. I argue that Igbo people were not just willing converts, but it was their phenomenal efforts that ensured the continual growth of the Catholic faith in Igboland. This thesis challenges a historiography t

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