Author : Rex Niven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : 0905838599
Nigerian Kaleidoscope
Rex Niven
Nigerian Kaleidoscope
Nigerian Kaleidoscope Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Nigerian Kaleidoscope book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics
A. Carl LeVan,Patrick Ukata
Author : A. Carl LeVan,Patrick Ukata
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198804307
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics by A. Carl LeVan,Patrick Ukata Pdf
This volume is an authoritative and agenda-setting examination of Nigerian politics.
Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria
Elisha P. Renne
Author : Elisha P. Renne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253036568
Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria by Elisha P. Renne Pdf
Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria tells the story of Islamic reform from the perspective of dress, textile production, trade, and pilgrimage over the past 200 years. As Islamic reformers have sought to address societal problems such as poverty, inequality, ignorance, unemployment, extravagance, and corruption, they have used textiles as a means to express their religious positions on these concerns. Home first to the early indigo trade and later to a thriving textile industry, northern Nigeria has been a center for Islamic practice as well as a place where everything from women's hijabs to turbans, buttons, zippers, short pants, and military uniforms offers a statement on Islam. Elisha P. Renne argues that awareness of material distinctions, religious ideology, and the political and economic contexts from which successive Islamic reform groups have emerged is important for understanding how people in northern Nigeria continue to seek a proper Islamic way of being in the world and how they imagine their futures—spiritually, economically, politically, and environmentally.
Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria
Saheed Aderinto
Author : Saheed Aderinto
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253031624
Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria by Saheed Aderinto Pdf
Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic, or to inspire confidence. In Guns and Society, Saheed Aderinto considers the social, political, and economic history of these weapons in colonial Nigeria. As he transcends traditional notions of warfare and militarization, Aderinto reveals surprising insights into how colonialism changed access to firearms after the 19th century. In doing so, he explores the unusual ways in which guns were used in response to changes in the Nigerian cultural landscape. More Nigerians used firearms for pastime and professional hunting in the colonial period than at any other time. The boom and smoke of gunfire even became necessary elements in ceremonies and political events. Aderinto argues that firearms in the Nigerian context are not simply commodities but are also objects of material culture. Considering guns in this larger context provides a clearer understanding of the ways in which they transformed a colonized society.
Berengario Cermenati Among the Igbirra (Ebira) of Nigeria
Edmund M. Hogan
Author : Edmund M. Hogan
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789780811822
Berengario Cermenati Among the Igbirra (Ebira) of Nigeria by Edmund M. Hogan Pdf
Chapters: A calamity in Okene - The setting: political and ecclesiastical -- The early years (1899-1917) -- Harmony and discord in Igbirraland -- The Oka Palaver -- Ibrahima, Atta of the Igbirra, in the dock -- Berengario Cermenati in the dock -- The Bangedi uprising and its aftermath.
Colonial Subjects
Philip Serge Zachernuk
Author : Philip Serge Zachernuk
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0813919088
Colonial Subjects by Philip Serge Zachernuk Pdf
West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subjects. Against the tendency to view this engagement as a confrontation between the modern west and traditional Africa, Philip S. Zachernuk argues that the interaction is far more fluid and diverse. Challenging the frequent denigration of western-educated Africans as a culturally barren "kleptocratic" elite, Colonial Subjects shows that they occupied a shifting medial position between colonizers and colonized. In the process they created a distinctive intellectual culture grounded in indigenous and European sources. Looking carefully at southern Nigeria from 1840 to 1960, Zachernuk locates intellectuals in the contours of their society as it changed from late precolonial times to the beginning of independence. He examines their engagement with British and Black Atlantic assumptions and assertions about Africa's place in the world. These ideas, shaped by the needs of others, became the often awkward material with which these intellectuals endeavored to construct their own image of their home continent. In this context, a group of Nigerian intellectuals created a dynamic intellectual tradition motivated by self-interest and marked by innovation, counter-invention, and imitation within the confines of the Atlantic world. At different times they opposed and supported the colonial state, adopted and rejected notions of racial destiny, and advocated free market principles, cooperative self-help, and state socialism. Colonial Subjects provides a historical framework for connecting these divergent ideas, thereby recovering the complexity of an intellectual tradition both colonial and modern.
Educating the Middlemen
Jan-Georg Deutsch
Author : Jan-Georg Deutsch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783112402580
Educating the Middlemen by Jan-Georg Deutsch Pdf
The refereed series ZMO-Studien publishes monographs and edited volumes which mirror the interdisciplinary research programme and approach of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Fashioning Africa
Jean Allman
Author : Jean Allman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253216892
Fashioning Africa by Jean Allman Pdf
There is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. In 'Fashioning Africa' an international group of anthropologists, historians and art historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic.
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
Saheed Aderinto
Author : Saheed Aderinto
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821447680
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa by Saheed Aderinto Pdf
With this multispecies study of animals as instrumentalities of the colonial state in Nigeria, Saheed Aderinto argues that animals, like humans, were colonial subjects in Africa. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa broadens the historiography of animal studies by putting a diverse array of species (dogs, horses, livestock, and wildlife) into a single analytical framework for understanding colonialism in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. From his study of animals with unequal political, economic, social, and intellectual capabilities, Aderinto establishes that the core dichotomies of human colonial subjecthood—indispensable yet disposable, good and bad, violent but peaceful, saintly and lawless—were also embedded in the identities of Nigeria’s animal inhabitants. If class, religion, ethnicity, location, and attitude toward imperialism determined the pattern of relations between human Nigerians and the colonial government, then species, habitat, material value, threat, and biological and psychological characteristics (among other traits) shaped imperial perspectives on animal Nigerians. Conceptually sophisticated and intellectually engaging, Aderinto’s thesis challenges readers to rethink what constitutes history and to recognize that human agency and narrative are not the only makers of the past.
Symbol of Authority
Anthony Kirk-Greene
Author : Anthony Kirk-Greene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857717221
Symbol of Authority by Anthony Kirk-Greene Pdf
In this book, Anthony Kirk-Greene, who served as a district officer in Nigeria for over a decade, draws upon personal memoirs, diaries, private and official papers, and his own experience, to paint a vivid picture of the service from his perspective. Symbol of Authority explores the socio-educational status of district officers, their recruitment and training, and what they did in both their work and leisure.
Making Headway
Andrew E. Barnes
Author : Andrew E. Barnes
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580462990
Making Headway by Andrew E. Barnes Pdf
A thought-provoking study of the role of Africans in the colonial process of cultural transfer.
When Sex Threatened the State
Saheed Aderinto
Author : Saheed Aderinto
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252096846
When Sex Threatened the State by Saheed Aderinto Pdf
Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, When Sex Threatened the State illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. As Saheed Aderinto shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's "civilizing mission". He details the Nigerian response to imported sexuality laws and the contradictory ways both African and British reformers advocated for prohibition or regulation of prostitution. Tracing the tensions within diverse groups of colonizers and the colonized, he reveals how wrangling over prostitution camouflaged the negotiating of separate issues that threatened the social, political, and sexual ideologies of Africans and Europeans alike. The first book-length project on sexuality in early twentieth century Nigeria, When Sex Threatened the State combines the study of a colonial demimonde with an urban history of Lagos and a look at government policy to reappraise the history of Nigerian public life.
A History of Borno
Vincent Hiribarren
Author : Vincent Hiribarren
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849044745
A History of Borno by Vincent Hiribarren Pdf
Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Borno, renowned throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released 'migrated archives'. As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is the permanence of its boundaries-its territorial integrity-which dates back centuries, and the political and social identities that such borders framed in the minds of its inhabitants.
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire
Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.
Author : Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000080865
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire by Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr. Pdf
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral criteria of clubbability used by the "select people"—clubbable settler elite—to vet the "proper sort"—clubbable indigenous elite—as they culturally, economically and socially navigated their way towards membership in colonial clubland. As a microcosm for British-controlled areas of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, this book assesses the history, membership, growth and collection development of three colonial subscription libraries—the Penang Library in Malaysia, the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica and the Lagos Library in Nigeria—during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This work also examines the places these libraries occupied within the lives of their subscribers, and how the British Council reorganized these colonial subscription libraries to ensure their survival and the survival of colonial clubland in a post-colonial world. This book is designed to accommodate historians of Britain and its empire who are unfamiliar with library history, library historians who are unfamiliar with British history, and book historians who are unfamiliar with both topics.
Jihadist Insurgent Movements
Paul B. Rich,Richard Burchill
Author : Paul B. Rich,Richard Burchill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351705844
Jihadist Insurgent Movements by Paul B. Rich,Richard Burchill Pdf
This path-breaking collection of papers examines the phenomenon of jihadist insurgent movements in the Middle East and North, East and West Africa. It argues that military and strategic analysts have paid insufficient attention to the phenomenon of jihadism in insurgent movements, partly due to a failure to take the role of religion sufficiently seriously in the ideological mobilisation of recruits by guerrilla movements stretching back to the era of "national liberation" after World War Two. Several essays in the collection examine Al Qaeda and ISIL as military as well as political movements while others assess Boko Haram in West Africa, Al Shabaab in Somalia and jihadist movements in Libya. Additionally, some authors discuss the recruitment of foreign fighters and the longer-term terrorist threat posed by the existence of jihadist movements to security and ethnic relations in Europe Overall, this volume fills an important niche between studies that look at Islamic fundamentalism and "global jihad" at the international level and micro studies that look at movements locally. It poses the question whether jihadist insurgencies are serious revolutionary threats to global political stability or whether, like Soviet Russia after its initial revolutionary phase of the 1920s, they can be ultimately contained by the global political order. The volume sees these movements as continuing to evolve dynamically over the next few years suggesting that, even if ISIL is defeated, the movement that brought it into being will still exist and very probably morph into new movements. Jihadist Insurgent Movements was originally published as a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.