Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-58046-219-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 380 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Genova, Ann

Falola, Toyin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Adeniji, Abolade

Genova, Ann

O'Hear, Ann

Adeyanju, Charles Temitope

Afolayan, Funso

Martineau, Jean-Luc

Adekunle, Julius O.

Abegunrin, Olayiwola

Vaughan, Olufemi

Adeboye, Olufunke A.

Akinyele, R.T.

Olaniyi, Rasheed Oyewole

Falola, Toyin

Akinwumi, Tunde M.

Oduwobi, Tunde

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Toyin Falola and Ann Genova
The Yorùbá Nation - Toyin Falola
Oral Tradition and the Reconstruction of Yorùbá Dress - Tunde M. Akinwumi
Diaries as Cultural and Intellectual Histories - Olufunke A. Adeboye
Historiography of Western Yorùbá Borderlands - R.T. Akinyele
The History of the Okun Yorùbá: Research Directions - Ann O'Hear
Ilá Kingdom Revisited: Recent Archaeological Research at Ilá-Yàrà -

Early Ijebú History: An Analysis on Demographic Evolution and State Formation - Tunde Oduwobi
Power, Status, and Influence of Yorùbá Chiefs in Historical Perspective - Toyin Falola
Chieftaincy Structures, Communal Identity, and Decolonization in Yorùbáland - Olufemi Vaughan
Odogbolu Chieftaincy Dispute in Historical Perspective - Abolade Adeniji
Yorùbá Nationalism and the Reshaping of Obaship - Jean-Luc Martineau
Approaching the Study of the Yorùbá Diaspora in Northern Nigeria - Rasheed Olaniyi
Yorùbá-Nigerians in Toronto: Transnational Practices and Experiences - Charles Temitope Adeyanju
Yorùbá Factor in Nigerian Politics - Julius O. Adekunle
Politics, Ethnicity, and the Struggle for Autonomy and Democracy - Funso Afolayan
Petroleum and Ethno-Politics - Ann Genova
Chief M.K.O. Abiola's Presidential Ambitions and Yorùbá Democratic Rights - Olayiwola Abegunrin

Über Autor(innen)

Falola, Toyin
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.

Falola, Toyin
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.

Olaniyi, Rasheed Oyewole
RASHEED OYEWOLE OLANIYI is Professor of African History at the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and books on Economic and Social History focusing on migration and diaspora studies, conflict and peacebuilding, identity politics, and vigilantism.