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Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054226
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 1139911201
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 1139915142
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy. Wale Adebanwi demonstrates how the corporate agency of the elite transformed the modern history and politics of one of Africa's largest ethnic groups, the Yorùbá. The argument is organized around the ideas and cultural representations of Ọbáfemi Awólowo, the central signifier of modern Yorùbá culture. Through the narration and analysis of material, non-material and interactional phenomena - such as political party and ethnic group organization, cultural politics, democratic struggle, personal ambitions, group solidarity, death, memory and commemoration - this book examines the foundations of the legitimacy of the Yorùbá political elite. Using historical sociology and ethnographic research, Adebanwi takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the most powerful and progressive elite groups in Africa, tracing its internal and external struggles for power.
Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Kenya
ISBN : 1560729678
This book is more than just a study of ethnic politics in Kenya and Nigeria. The two countries are a microcosm of the entire continent: the problems it faces, its successes and failures, and the hope and despair of hundreds of millions of its people whose aspirations have been frustrated by decades of corrupt leadership that has skilfully exploited one of Africa's biggest weaknesses -- tribalism. But the people themselves are also responsible for that. They have allowed tribalism to flourish and destroy the countries. And they have allowed unscrupulous politicians to use and abuse them -- without storming the Bastille. What they are not responsible for is dictatorship African leaders instituted to perpetuate themselves in office by exploiting tribalism. These despots have been so good at it, and have done it for so long since independence, that many African countries are now on the brink of collapse, with the people at war against themselves.
Author : Okwudiba Nnoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005593368
Author : Okwudiba Nnoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCAL:B3674685
Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0253070368
Can subalterns transform themselves into members of the elite, and what does it take to do so? And how do those efforts reveal the nature of ethnic politics in postcolonial Africa? How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria examines these questions by revealing how, through ethno-regional conflict, violence and cultural activities, an artisan, Gani Adams, transformed himself into the holder of the most prestigious chieftaincy title among the Yoruba. Addressing persistent gaps in anthropological studies of the subaltern and of "big men" in politics through in-depth biography and rich social history, Wale Adebanwi follows Adams and other major figures in Nigeria's Oodua People's Congress (OPC) over two decades of ethnographic study and visual representations. Challenging existing models of African political mobility by leveraging his initial lack of formal education into a position of power, Adams moved from a "radical lumpen" and "area boy" to a "big man" who continues to struggle—and reflect—over the significance of his role as a cultural subject. Blurring the lines between tradition and modernity, Adams and his group have used Yoruba rituals to simultaneously claim authenticity and champion new movements for democracy and self-determination. How to Become a Big Man in Africa encourages us to understand the full complexity of Adams's political trajectory and how it reflects the structural and personal realities of becoming a "Big Man" in the contemporary postcolony.
Author : Pade Badru
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Military government
ISBN : UOM:39015045617167
The book examines the class dimension of the Nigerian political crisis since 1960, when this culturally diverse nation assumed the stature of independent nationhood from the British imperial state. The writer posits that the ruling elite, whether constituted in the military or the civil society, consistently used ethnicity to secure its own class domination in the absence of a coherent class ideology. The author argues that the military transition agenda to a "democratic state" is nothing more than a ploy by the military elite and its civilian partners to perpetuate themselves in power in spite of international opposition.
Author : Rotimi T. Suberu
Publisher : Institut français de recherche en Afrique
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070599647
Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria explores and analyses the underlying sources and salient features of recent ethnic minority conflicts in Nigeria, the largely controversial policies by which the Nigerian state has sought to contain these conflicts, and the prospects and preconditions for a more stable and equitable system of federal governance in the country. Through an insightful examination of two most recent minority conflicts in the country, the author probes the contemporary problems of ethnic minorities. He appraises the management of the conflicts by the State, and proffers appropriate policy responses for the resolution of the country's ethnic minority problems. The book is recommended to policy makers, students of history and political science, academicians and the general public.
Author : Toyin Falola,Ann Genova
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1580462197
Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics covers the major issues in Yorùbá history and politics, offering through narratives of the past and present a solid understanding of one of the most popular ethnic groups in Africa. Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics covers the major issues on Yorùbá history and politics, thus offering a solid understanding of one of the most popular ethnic groups in Africa. With a careful blend of sources and methods, narratives on the past and present, the book manages to present a long history as the backdrop to complicated contemporary politics. Contributors: Tunde M. Akinwumi, Olufunke A. Adeboye, R. T. Akinyele, Aribidesi Usman, Tunde Oduwobi, Olufemi Vaughan, Abolade Adeniji, Jean-Luc Martineau, Ann O'Hear, Rasheed Olaniyi, Charles Temitope Adeyanju, Julius O. Adekunle, Funso Afolayan, Olayiwola Abegunrin. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Ann Genova is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.
Author : Okwudiba Nnoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa
ISBN : UVA:X002651120
Author : Onigu Otite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081007432
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108837972
An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
Author : Aribidesi Usman,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107064607
A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Author : David D. Laitin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226467900
In this ambitious work, David D. Laitin explores the politics of religious change among the Yoruba of Nigeria, then uses his findings to expand leading theories of ethnic and religious politics.