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Author |
: Wolfgang F. Stolper |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0754609952 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780754609957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inside Independent Nigeria by : Wolfgang F. Stolper
The edited diary of one of the first Western economists to serve as an adviser in the government of an independent African country. It gives a brutally frank appraisal of Nigeria's then political leaders and their economic advisers. It anticipates many of the problems that afflicted Nigeria's economy from the mid-1960s on, highlighting corruption and waste of development resources.
Author |
: Clive S. Gray |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2017-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351765268 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351765264 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inside Independent Nigeria by : Clive S. Gray
This title was first published in 2003.Wolfgang Stolper was one of the first Western economists to serve as an adviser in the government of an independent African country. In 1960 he was brought in by the Nigerian government to help shape Nigeria’s first post-independence development plan. His remarkably candid diaries chronicle his struggles and frustrations with officials, interference, waste and corruption at the heart of a government and unfolds the extraordinary story of his warmth and friendship with a country and its people. Brutally frank, compelling and disarmingly thoughtful, Inside Independent Nigeria brings to light one of the most exceptional documents on post-independence Nigeria, and delivers a fascinating picture of a pivotal era in the development of Western economic planning in Africa. No student or researcher of African political history, economics or development studies will want to be without this utterly riveting book.
Author |
: Peter Cunliffe-Jones |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2010-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230112605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230112609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Nigeria by : Peter Cunliffe-Jones
His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.
Author |
: Noah Tsika |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2022-02-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520386099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520386094 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cinematic Independence by : Noah Tsika
"Cinematic Independence traces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions by Hollywood and corporate America. The 1980s and 90s saw a shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by television and direct-to-video movies. After 1999, the exhibition sector was again revitalized with the construction of multiplexes. Cinematic Independence is about the periods that straddle this disappearing act: the decades bracketing independence in 1960, and the years after 1999. At stake in both instances is the postcolony's role in global debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was eventually resurrected in the flashy form of the multiplex is not simply an achievement of commercial real estate but also a testament to cinema's persistence--its capacity to stave off annihilation or, in this case, come back from the dead"--
Author |
: Toyin Falola |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2008-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139472036 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139472038 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Nigeria by : Toyin Falola
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
Author |
: Lev Naumovich Pribytovskiĭ |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 1962 |
ISBN-10 |
: NWU:35556012157509 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nigeria in the Struggle for Independence by : Lev Naumovich Pribytovskiĭ
Author |
: Ucheoma Nwagbara |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 373 |
Release |
: 2022-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781793633767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1793633762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria by : Ucheoma Nwagbara
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.
Author |
: Sarah Ladipo Manyika |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1911115782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781911115786 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Dependence by : Sarah Ladipo Manyika
In the early sixties, Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. There he discovers a whole generation high on visions of a new and better world. He meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of a former colonial officer. Their story, which spans four decades, is a bittersweet tale of a brave but doomed affair and the universal desire to fall truly, madly and deeply in love. A lyrical and moving story of unfulfilled love fraught with the weight of history, race and geography and intertwined with questions of belonging, aging, faith and family secrets. In Dependence explores the complexities of contemporary Africa, its Diaspora and its interdependence with the rest of the world.
Author |
: Gretel Clark |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1942155131 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781942155133 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Letters from Nigeria by : Gretel Clark
A young American joins her husband on a pre-Peace Corps mission to newly independent Nigeria: she to work in the Ministry of Education, while he joins a team of economists sent by the Ford Foundation. Gretel's letters home give an inside view of the fledgling government. Full-color slides bring alive the vibrant cultures of the new nation. Life among British civil servants, visiting foreign diplomats and speculators, and daily interactions with the Nigerian people are the heart of this story. Included in Clark's anthropological musings, and economic development theories, is the birth of her first child in a West African government hospital.
Author |
: Obafemi Awolowo |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 137 |
Release |
: 1947 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:47024937 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Path to Nigerian Freedom by : Obafemi Awolowo