Indiana University Press, 2010. Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who became king in colonial Nigeria. Ugbabe was exiled from Igboland, became a prostitute, traveled widely, and learned to speak many languages. She became a close companion of Nigerian Igala kings and the British officers who supported her claim to the office of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 256 p. This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). It analyzes the progress made in Nigeria since the return to democratic rule in 1999 and the prospects of democratic consolidation in the country.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 215 p. The nature of the state and the ideological thrust of state policies continue to shape the character of the economy and social relations in Nigeria. This book analyzes how neo-liberal state economic policies and political reforms have impacted on state-society relations, economic and class configurations, social composition of power, social...
Routledge, 2004. — 328 p. — (African Studies). — ISBN: 0-415-94785-5. This volume deftly undertakes both a theoretical deconstruction of the concept of civil society (and related themes, including civility) and an empirical analysis of the radicalization process in Southern Nigeria. Overview of Study. Review of Literature. Summary of Results—Ijaw Youth Council. Summary of...
Calabar: Tidings Press Ltd., 2009. — 189 p. Айе Э. У. Король Эйо II и его эпоха (на англ. яз.) Eyo Honesty II (né Eyo Eyo Nsa; 1788–1835) was the ruler of Creek Town, a part of the Efik city-states of the Old Calabar province in the Bight of Biafra, from 1835 until his death. His reign saw changes to the religious life of Creek Town and Old Calabar. He is credited as having...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 305 p. This volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the problem of conflict and its methods of management in Nigeria's contemporary democracy. It represents a compendium of resourceful studies provided by experts on conflict studies from various disciplines across the Social Sciences and Humanities. Such studies are very useful at this...
Springer International Publishing, 2019. — 188 p. This book uses the political economy approach to examine the relative failure of federalism in Nigeria. It shows the nexus between the political and the economic aspects of the country’s federalism. The central feature of Nigeria’s political economy is the relationship between oil resources and the state. The author argues that...
Stanford University Press, 2020. — 304 p. Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront of this trend. In a country with over 1,000 reported pageants, these events are more than...
University of Rochester Press, 1997. — 450 p. No African country has tried so hard or for so long to create a lasting democratic system as has Nigeria, but success has been elusive. Political transition to democracy, under the auspices of a series of authoritarian military governments, has been prolonged and lacking in outcome; vast sums of money, and an increasing number of...
Brill, 2017. — viii, 316 p. This chronology for 2004 to 2016 compiles the chapters on Nigeria previously published in the Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara. This decade, however, covers the most crucial events such as stabilising the democratic process, a short-lived economic boom, the rise of Boko Haram and its Islamist insurgency, the amnesty...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013. — 216 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4422-0691-5 Nigeria, the United States' most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the recent vacuum in government authority, the upcoming 2011 elections, and escalating violence in the Delta and the North...
Hurst, 2015. — 600 p. — ISBN: 978-184904-491-2 Northern and central Nigeria are engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. 'Boko Haram', and more recently, its splinter group 'Ansaru'. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram, and even more so Ansaru, have now showed clear signs of...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 285 p. The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. Samuel Fury Childs Daly examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from an uncommon vantage point - the courtroom. Wartime Biafra was glutted with firearms, wracked by famine, and...
Second Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. — 504 p. The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria: Second Edition introduces Nigeria’s rich and complex history. Readers will find a wealth of information on pre-20th century history, Nigeria under British colonial rule, and important post-independence issues while providing greater attention to Nigeria’s role in international...
Second Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. — 504 p. The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria: Second Edition introduces Nigeria’s rich and complex history. Readers will find a wealth of information on pre-20th century history, Nigeria under British colonial rule, and important post-independence issues while providing greater attention to Nigeria’s role in international...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 792 p. - Thirty-six accessible overviews covering the history of Nigeria, from prehistorical times to the 21st century - Decenters the colonial era, placing greater emphasis on pre-colonial and post-independence histories - Cutting edge interpretations and analysis of key themes from highly respected scholars in a single, forward-facing volume...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 792 p. - Thirty-six accessible overviews covering the history of Nigeria, from prehistorical times to the 21st century - Decenters the colonial era, placing greater emphasis on pre-colonial and post-independence histories - Cutting edge interpretations and analysis of key themes from highly respected scholars in a single, forward-facing volume...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 370 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-86294-3. 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...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 257 p. Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as a tool of domination and resistance, however unequally applied, to get to the heart of why Nigeria has not built a successful democracy. Falola's analysis centers on two phases of Nigerian...
Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001. — 144 p. — (Exploration of Africa, the Emerging Nations). — ISBN: 0-7910-5452-7. Photographs and text look at the past, development, and present culture of Nigeria and its inhabitants. The Dark Continent (Dr. Richard E. Leakey). What Brought Europeans to Nigeria. Life in Nigeria During European Colonization. Results of Colonization....
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 410 p. In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and television stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil war that had been fought for one year...
Brill, 2003. — 483 p. — ISBN 90 04 12560 4. The principal text translated in this volume is the Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sa‘dī. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political history of the Songhay empire from the reign of Sunni ‘Alī (1464-1492) through...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 288 p. Steve Itugbu, for many years a foreign policy aide to Obasanjo, draws on an extensive corpus of official documents, interviews, unpublished material and first-hand experience to explore the president's multi-faceted personality in depth. In so doing, Itugbu demonstrates that Nigeria's foreign policy has suffered through a combination of...
The Radcliffe Press, 2010. — 277 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84885-143-6. The end of empire, a romantic story and the social life and culture of an elite British colony - these are the fascinating themes to emerge from this unique collection of letters and diary entries. It is an inside story of Northern Nigeria's independence and of a clash of cultures. Tim Johnston's background was rich...
Lexington Books, 2021. — 429 p. This book analyzes the impact of the Nigeria-Biafra war on the Igbo, the failure of the reconstruction and reconciliation effort in the post-war period, and the politics of exclusion of the memory of the war in public discourse in Nigeria, arguing that the war had lasting consequences for the socio-political developments in the post-war period...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 310 p. Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in the war against the Axis powers. Leading to large-scale mobilization of human and materials resources, it transformed lives and societies in irrevocable ways. Of the 90,000 West African soldiers deployed...
London: Pluto Press, 2016. — 242 p. Майер Адам. Марксизм и революционная мысль Нигерии (на англ. яз.) The Descent. Leftist Movements in Nigeria. International Relations of the Nigerian Left. Activists, Historiographers and Political Thinkers: Marxist-Leninism versus Heterodoxies. Political Economists. Marxian Feminisms. Conclusion: Analysing Nigerian Marxism. Notes.
Routledge, 2018. — 238 p. Originally published in 1942 this now classic book is a study of the Nupe of Northern Nigeria. The economic and political complexity of their kingdom evoked comparisons with the civilization of Byzantium. The detailed description and analysis of their social life and political institutions was the first study of a Muslim Emirate in Nigeria and as such...
Routledge, 2013. — 270 p. Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives, values, and ideas of these individuals. This book is about the diachronic impact of...
Routledge, 2022. — 197 p. This book reflects on Nigeria’s fourth republic, the country’s longest democratic period since it gained independence from Great Britain. It argues that although constitutional or political democracy has lasted for over two decades in Nigeria and seen three successful democratic changes of power, Nigeria’s democracy remains largely militarised. During...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 284 p.
This volume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa. It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society 'encounter' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to the spectacular. While many recent collections have reheated the old paradigms – of the perils...
Routledge, 2018. — 178 p. The 1990s heralded waves of spectacular forms of local resistance and globalized protest against oil exploitation and environmental pollution in oil-producing regions of the developing world. One of the most spectacular local uprisings against global oil multinationals was led by the Ogoni people who were protesting against the exploitation and...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 294 p. Moses E. Ochonu explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Ochonu reveals that the outsiders ruled with an iron fist and imagined themselves as bearers of Muslim...
Nigeria, Fourth Dimension, 1985. — 271 p. A lively and readable account of the Biafran war, from Ojukwu's declaration of the independent State of Biafra in Enugu in 1967, the creation of a separate Biafran territory, identity and currency, and the military, diplomatic, and civil policies and struggles to defend the state. Odogwu's account contains many quotations from primary...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 288 p. Boko Haram is the major threat to the Nigerian state, and has emerged as a destabilizing factor across sub-Saharan Africa. This is now a major focus of global policy-making, as between 2013 and 2014 insurgency-related deaths in Nigeria exceeded those in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is the first to focus on the military nature of Boko Haram, the...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. — 322 p. Sure to become the authoritative book on the Nigeria Police Force. This kaleidoscopic view of law enforcement over the last century and a half in many ways tells the story of Nigeria itself since the advent of colonialism. Close to the center of politics since the nineteenth century, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has grown to become the...
Lawrence Hill Books, 2010 - 256 p.
The largest U.S. trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, petroleum-rich Nigeria exports half its daily oil production to the United States. Like many African nations with natural resources coveted by the world's superpowers, the country has been shaped by foreign investment and intervention, conflicts among hundreds of ethnic and religious...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 425 p. — (International African Library 34). — ISBN: 978-0-7486-2553-6. The Man-Leopard Murders is an account of murder and politics in Africa and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. Its narrative leads to events between 1945 and 1948 when the imperial gaze of police, press, and...
University of California Press, 1999. — 240 p. The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the inmates were insane and how? This...
New York: Algora Publishing, 2009. — 268 p. — ISBN: 978-0-87586-708-3. The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country's oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its...
Cassava Republic Press, 2013. — 546 p. Soldiers of Fortune is a fast-paced and thrilling narrative of the major events of the Buhari and Babangida era (1983-1993). Historian Max Siollun gives an intimate, fly-on-the-wall portrait of the major events and dramatis personae of the period. Both gripping and informative, Soldiers of Fortune is a must-read for all Nigerians and...
Routledge, 2020. — 380 p. Originally published in 1960, this is a details study of the successive forms of government in the Hausa chiefdom of Zaria in Northern Nigeria. It presents a comparative analysis of the political organization and development of Zaria under successive Habe, Fulani and British suzerains. The book tackles the problems of political history and theory from...
I. B. Tauris, 2008. — 291 p. — ISBN: 978 1 84511 656 9 Since the late 1980s, the changing dynamic of global development has driven the tide of democratic expansion in the developing world. In Africa, western donors have sought to impose "neo-liberal" visions of socio-economic and political institution-building, spreading political reforms and economic liberalization with...
Washington DC.: The World Bank, 2010. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8213-8072-7 Public debate in Nigeria on the country’s progress has been dominated by two seemingly opposite themes. The first is the strong growth perform- ance of the non-oil economy since the return to democracy in 1999, and especially since 2003, which ushered in a period during which the Federal Government of...
Duke University Press, 2016. — 333 p. 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,...
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2004. — 154 с. Основу книги составляют исторические рассказы, записанные автором во время полевой работы в Нигерии: различные варианты легенды о Кабрин Кабра, предания кабала (хауса Кебби), рассказ о походе Саиду Алфа Бонкано, а также записи устной традиции народов кянга (чанга) и денди. Пособие предназначено для студентов 11—IV...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1981. — 368 с. — (История стран Африки). Первая в советской африканистике обобщающая работа по истории Нигерии. Рассматриваются основные этапы истории Нигерии в новое и новейшее время в связи с процессами становления, эволюции и распада колониального общества. Показаны особенности общественно-политического развития крупнейших...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1981. — 368 с. — (История стран Африки). Первая в советской африканистике обобщающая работа по истории Нигерии. Рассматриваются основные этапы истории Нигерии в новое и новейшее время в связи с процессами становления, эволюции и распада колониального общества. Показаны особенности общественно-политического развития крупнейших...
М.: Институт Африки РАН, 2007. — 288 с. — ISBN 978-5-91298-04-5. Книга посвящена одному из самых ярких и загадочных явлений культуры субсахарской Африки — священному городу Иле-Ифе, древнему центру производства высокохудожественных скульптур из терракоты и медных сплавов. Рассматриваются версии, научные гипотезы происхождения Иле-Ифе, аргументы в пользу его признания первичным...
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