Authority Stealing

Author : BOLAJI AKINOLA
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781477218914

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Authority Stealing by BOLAJI AKINOLA Pdf

Corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of Nigeria, the worlds most populous black nation. Authority Stealing gives a graphic account of how public officers in Nigeria plundered the countrys resources impoverishing the lives of the very people they were elected or appointed to serve. Nigeria is considered one of the worlds most corrupt countries ranked 143 out of 182 countries in Transparency Internationals 2011 Corruption Perception Index. Nigeria exports and sells over two and half million barrels of crude oil per day earning huge revenue. Despite this, however, over 75 million people representing more than half of the population live in absolute poverty largely due to corruption and mismanagement of state resources by political leaders. The dysfunctional state of public utilities and infrastructure in the country is also a direct consequence of high level corruption. Over $380 billion had been stolen or wasted by Nigerian leaders since independence in 1960. Many politicians and corporate executives who amass wealth illegally become so powerful that they subvert the judicial system. Some of them were not so lucky though as chronicled in Authority Stealing.

Author : Abiodun Salawu,Israel A. Fadipe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783030987053

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Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 2 by Abiodun Salawu,Israel A. Fadipe Pdf

This volume examines how African indigenous popular music is deployed in democracy, politics and for social crusades by African artists. Exploring the role of indigenous African popular music in environmental health communication and gender empowerment, it subsequently focuses on how the music portrays the African future, its use by African youths, and how it is affected by advanced broadcast technologies and the digital media. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which can only be unraveled by the knowledge of myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores how, during the colonial period and post-independence dispensation, indigenous African music genres and their artists were mainstreamed in order to tackle emerging issues, to sensitise Africans about the affairs of their respective nations and to warn African leaders who have failed and are failing African citizenry about the plight of the people. At the same time, indigenous African popular music genres have served as a beacon to the teeming African youths to express their dreams, frustrations about their environments and to represent themselves. This volume explores how, through the advent of new media technologies, indigenous African popular musicians have been working relentlessly for indigenous production, becoming champions of good governance, marginalised population, and repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.

Author : Michael Veal
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781566397650

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Fela by Michael Veal Pdf

Musician, political critic, and hedonist, international superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti created a sensation throughout his career. In his own country of Nigeria he was simultaneously adulated and loathed, often by the same people at the same time. His outspoken political views and advocacy of marijuana smoking and sexual promiscuity offended many, even as his musical brilliance enthralled them. In his creation of afrobeat, he melded African traditions with African American and Afro-Caribbean influences to revolutionize world music. Although harassed, beaten, and jailed by Nigerian authorities, he continued his outspoken and derisive criticism of political corruption at home and economic exploitation from abroad. A volatile mixture of personal characteristics -- charisma, musical talent, maverick lifestyle, populist ideology, and persistence in the face of persecution -- made him a legend throughout Africa and the world. Celebrated during the 1970s as a musical innovator and spokesman for the continent's oppressed masses, he enjoyed worldwide celebrity during the 1980s and was recognized in the 1990s as a major pioneer and elder statesman of African music. By the time of his death in 1997 from AIDS-related complications, Fela had become something of a Nigerian institution. In Africa, the idea of transnational alliance, once thought to be outmoded, has gained new currency. In African America, during a period of increasing social conservatism and ethnic polarization, Africa has re-emerged as a symbol of cultural affirmation. At such an historical moment, Fela's music offers a perspective on race, class, and nation on both sides of the Atlantic. As Professor Veal demonstrates, over three decades Fela synthesized a unique musical language while also clearing -- if only temporarily -- a space for popular political dissent and a type of counter-cultural expression rarely seen in West Africa. In the midst of political turmoil in Africa, as well as renewal of pro-African cultural nationalism throughout the diaspora, Fela's political music functions as a post-colonial art form that uses cross-cultural exchange to voice a unique and powerful African essentialism.

Author : Adeshina Afolayan,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501374722

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Fela Anikulapo-Kuti by Adeshina Afolayan,Toyin Falola Pdf

Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not only challenge consecutive governments in Nigeria, but his rebellious Afrobeat lyrics facilitate a philosophical subtext that enriches the more intellectual Afrocentric discourses. Afrobeat and the philosophy of blackism that Fela enunciated place him right beside Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Garvey, and all the others who champion a black and African mode of being in the world. This book traces the emergence of Fela on the music scene, the cultural and political backgrounds that made Afrobeat possible, and the philosophical elements that not only contributed to the formation of Fela's blackism, but what constitutes Fela's philosophical sensibility too.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004523586

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Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms by Anonim Pdf

This book features essays that untangle, express and discuss issues in and around the intersections of politics, pop-culture, democracy, liberalism, the environment, colonialism, migration, identities, and knowledge and as they relate to the two concepts of radicalisms and conservatisms in Africa.

Author : Kini-Yen Kinni
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956762200

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Pan-Africanism: Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic Anthropology for African Liberation and Governance by Kini-Yen Kinni Pdf

This Book is the outcome of a long project begun thirty years ago. It is a book on the makings of pan-Africanism through the predicaments of being black in a world dominated by being white. The book is a tribute and celebration of the efforts of the African-American and African-Caribbean Diaspora who took the initiative and the audacity to fight and liberate themselves from the shackles of slavery. It is also a celebration of those Africans who in their own way carried the torch of inspiration and resilience to save and reconstruct the Free Humanism of Africa. As a story of the rise from the shackles of slavery and poverty to the summit of Victors of their Renaissance Identity and Self-Determination as a People, the book is the story of African refusal to celebrate victimhood. The book also situates women as central actors in the Pan-African project, which is often presented as an exclusively masculine endeavour. It introduces a balanced gender approach and diagnosis of the Women actors of Pan-Africanism which was very much lacking. The problem of balkanisation of Africa on post-colonial affiliations and colonial linguistic lines has taken its toll on Africas building of its common identity and personality. The result is that Africans are more remote to each other in their pigeon-hole-nation-states which put more restrictions for African inter-mobility, coupled by education and cultural affiliations, the communication and transportation and trading networks which are still tied more to their colonial masters than among themselves. This book looks into the problem of the new wave of Pan-Africanism and what strategies that can be proposed for a more participatory Pan-Africanism inspired by the everyday realities of African masses at home and in the diaspora. This book is the first book of its kind that gives a comprehensive and multidimensional coverage of Pan-Africanism. It is a very timely and vital compendium.

Author : W. Adebanwi,E. Obadare
Publisher : Springer
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137280770

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Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria by W. Adebanwi,E. Obadare Pdf

Richard Joseph's seminal 1987 book Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria represented a watershed moment in the understanding of the political dynamics of Nigeria. This groundbreaking collection brings together scholars from across disciplines to assess the significance of Joseph's work and the current state of Nigerian politics.

Author : Onyebadi, Uche T.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781522572961

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Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena by Onyebadi, Uche T. Pdf

Political campaigning affects numerous realms under the communication umbrella with each channel seeking to influence as many individuals as possible. In higher education, there is a growing scholarly interest in communication issues and subjects, especially on the role of music, in the political arena. Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena provides innovative insights into providing music and songs as an integral part of sending political messages to a broader spectrum of audiences, especially during political campaigns. The content within this publication covers such topics as framing theory, national identity, and ethnic politics, and is designed for politicians, campaign managers, political communication scholars, researchers, and students.

Author : Grenada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Law
ISBN : OXFORD:N11083611

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The Laws of Grenada and the Grenadines by Grenada Pdf

Author : Jonathan C. Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136447280

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The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music by Jonathan C. Friedman Pdf

The major objective of this collection of 28 essays is to analyze the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical devices used in popular music to illuminate the human condition. By comparing and contrasting musical offerings in a number of countries and in different contexts from the 19th century until today, The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music aims to be a probing introduction to the history of social protest music, ideal for popular music studies and history and sociology of music courses.

Author : T. Falola,J. Abidogun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137438508

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Education, Creativity, and Economic Empowerment in Africa by T. Falola,J. Abidogun Pdf

Education and the arts offer multiple, mutually clarifying lenses through which to examine and understand issues of poverty and empowerment. Here, both are combined in a fascinating look at how these two often overlooked elements promote social equality and cultivate personal agency across Africa's diverse political-economic landscapes.

Author : Christopher Alan Waterman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226874656

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Juju by Christopher Alan Waterman Pdf

Now known internationally through the recordings of King Sunny Ade and others, juju music originated more than fifty years ago among the Yoruba of Nigeria. This history and ethnography of juju is the first detailed account of the evolution and social significance of a West African popular music. Enhanced with maps, color photographs of musicians and dance parties, musical transcriptions, interviews with musicians, and a glossary of Yoruba terms, Juju is an invaluable contribution to scholarship and a boon to fans who want to discover the roots of this vibrant music.

Author : Charles Smith,GMT Emezue
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789783703643

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New Black and African Writing: Volume 2 by Charles Smith,GMT Emezue Pdf

NEW BLACK AND AFRICAN WRITING Vol. 2 is our concluding edition of a series that has featured many critical entries and reviews on canonical African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. This second edition explores intricacies of relationships and associations, the recurrent tropes for the interpretation and understanding of historical connections, and the shaping of thought brought into fictional and cultural renditions that are evolving and continually reassessed although around the periphery of older canons. The quest for a meaningful heuristic for approaching contemporary arts is almost totally redefined by the contributions of eminent scholars of our time whose balancing and correspondence create room for complementarity of values and toward cultural understanding and value appreciation in contemporary society.

Author : Canada. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015076291650

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Journals of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada by Canada. Parliament. Legislative Council Pdf

Author : Ucheoma Nwagbara
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793633767

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The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria by Ucheoma Nwagbara Pdf

In The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria, Ucheoma Nwagbara argues that despite Nigeria’s oil wealth and arable agricultural land, Nigerians are not any better today than they were before independence. Nwagbara examines Nigeria’s struggles with corruption, reckless government spending, poverty, inequality, crime, and violent insurgency to show how successive Nigerian leadership has failed to utilize the country’s enormous natural and human resources to improve citizens’ lives, eradicate poverty, and deliver broadly shared prosperity, especially to the middle class and the poor. Through his analysis, Nwagbara demonstrates that the nationalist ideals of dedicated and accountable leadership behind the struggle for independence in Nigeria have been betrayed as the emergent post-colonial leadership cared only for personal survival and gain. Despite these failures, Nwagbara reveals that Nigeria may still have a chance to improve and recover if Nigerians unite and demand real change through political and social activism.