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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 |
: 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 |
: John Campbell |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442206892 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442206896 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nigeria by : John Campbell
An updated edition of this book is now available. Nigeria is the African country of greatest strategic importance to the United States. And it is in danger of failing as a state. John Campbell, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, in Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink, analyzes the hollowing out of Nigerian governance, the insurrection in the oil patch, and religious and ethnic conflict in the North. Looking forward to the elections in 2011, he suggests policy options for the United States to help Nigeria escape state failure.
Author |
: Nimi Wariboko |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580469432 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580469434 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ethics and Society in Nigeria by : Nimi Wariboko
Offers a radical political interpretation of history that generates fresh insights into the emancipatory potential of ordinary Nigerians and their precolonial cultural institutions
Author |
: Sakah Saidu Mahmud |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2016-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349139415 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349139416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis State, Class and Underdevelopment in Nigeria and Early Meiji Japan by : Sakah Saidu Mahmud
This book compares the social processes that explain Japanese development, beginning with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, with similar processes in post-independent Nigeria in its effort to achieve capitalist development. Before the Restoration and independence, both Japan and Nigeria lacked any prospects for further development. Japan, however, pursued fundamental social transformations of society leading to capitalist development, whereas Nigeria, following independence, has lacked any transforming ideals resulting in underdevelopment and social stagnation.
Author |
: J. Hill |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2012-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137292049 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137292040 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nigeria Since Independence by : J. Hill
This book analyses the political and ethnical tensions that characterize Nigeria, which derive both from colonial and contemporary conflicts. It points out three major factors why Nigeria has not yet collapsed like many other African states: ethnic power sharing amongst the political elite, the military with its national outlook, and oil wealth.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X002001266 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nigeria Since Independence: Culture by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781294817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789781294815 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nigeria Since Independence by :
Author |
: L. John Lewis |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:878129297 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Society, Schools and Progress in Nigeria by : L. John Lewis
Author |
: Olufemi Vaughan |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2016-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822373872 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822373874 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and the Making of Nigeria by : Olufemi Vaughan
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.