Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria

Beyond The Colony
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-59047-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 319 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa

In this book, Oluwatoyin Oduntan offers a critical intervention in the scholarly fields of Nigerian, and West African history, as well as towards understanding the intellectual ideas by which modern African society was formed, and how it functions.

The book traces the shifting dynamics between various segments of the African elite by critically analyzing existing historical accounts, traditions and archival documents. First, it explores the lost world of native intellectual thoughts as the perspective through which Africans experienced the colonial encounter. It thereby makes Africans central to contemporary debates about the meanings and legitimacy of colonial empires, and about the African cultural experience. It shows that the resettlement of liberated and Westernized Africans in Abeokuta and after them, European missionaries, merchants and colonial agents from the 1840s, did not dismantle preexisting power structures and social relations. Rather, educated Africans and Europeans entered into and added their voices to ongoing processes of defining culture and power.

By rendering a continuing narrative of change and adaptation which connects the pre-colonial to the post-colonial, Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria leads Africanist scholarship in new directions to rethink colonial impact and uncover the total creative sites of changes by which African societies were formed.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oduntan, Oluwatoyin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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