The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake
Sabine Jell Bahlsen holds an MA in ethnology from the Free University in Berlin/ Germany and a PhD in anthropology from the New School University in New York. She edits the journal Dialectical Anthropology and is the director of Ogbuide Films. Her published articles appear in many publications including Research in African Literatures, Dialectical Anthropology, the International Journal of African Historical Studies, Visual Anthropology, and in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005), Education, Culture and Development (in press); African Spirituality (2000); Sisterhood, Feminisms and Power (1998); Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa (1998). Her ethnographic documentaries include Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits in Nigeria (1991); Tubali: Hausa Architecture of Northern Nigeria (1994); Owu: Chidi Joins the Okoroshi Secret Society (1994), and Skull Art in Papua New Guinea (2000