Mammy Water in Igbo Culture: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake

This is the most informative study yet on the Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology. Teachers and scholars of African Literature will find it an indispensable companion not only for the study of Flora Nwapa’s fiction but more significantly, in the better appreciation of the use of history, myth, legends and folklore in the construction and reconstruction of popular culture and ideology.

About the Author: 

Sabine Jell-Bahlsen studies African Cultures focusing on the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria and has written several publications on Mammy Waters and the Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology.  She holds an MA in ethnology from Free University, Berlin, Germany as well as a Ph. D. in anthropology from the New School for Social Research, New York, NY.