Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria: Beyond the Colony

ISBN-13: 9780367590475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str.

Oluwatoyin Oduntan

Opis

This book explores the lost world of native intellectual thoughts as the perspective through which Africans experienced the colonial encounter making Africans central to contemporary debates about the meanings and legitimacy of colonial empires.

Spis treści

Acknowledgment

List of Maps and Figures

Abbreviations

Introduction: Colonialism and the African Modern

Chapter 1: Before the Modern: The Burden of Origins and Traditions

Chapter 2: Incipient order: settlers and returnees making the nation (1850-1880)

Chapter 3: Making Modern Monarchy: The Ambiance of a King, 1893-1920.

Chapter 4: Making a Nation: Colonialisms Unlimited, 1918-1940.

Chapter 5: "Rulers know their Bounds": Disease and Death in Abeokuta, 1937-1950.

Chapter 6: A Nation Unfulfilled: Local Rivalries, Nigerian Nationalism and

Global Ideas, 1950-

Epilogue/Conclusion: Continuities

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Tunde Oduntan is an Assistant Professor at Towson University, USA.