Author: St Peter's Church. History Commission (Aremo)
Publisher:
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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A Short History of St. Peter's Church, Aremo, Ibadan
Author: St Peter's Church. History Commission (Aremo)
Publisher:
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
Author: Olufemi Vaughan
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299344509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 and 1994. The people who wrote these letters had emerged from the religious, social, and educational institutions established by the Church Missionary Society, the preeminent Anglican mission in the Atlantic Nigerian region following the imposition of British colonial rule. Abiodun, recruited to be a civil servant in the colonial Department of Agriculture, became a leader of a prominent family in Ibadan, the dominant Yoruba city in southern Nigeria. Reading deeply in these letters, Vaughan realized he had a unique set of sources to illuminate everyday life in modern Nigeria. Letter writing was a dominant form of communication for Western-educated elites in colonial Africa, especially in Nigeria. Exposure to the modern world and a growing sense of nationalism were among the factors that led people to begin exchanging letters, particularly in their interactions with British colonial authorities. Through careful textual analysis and broad contextualization, Vaughan reconstructs dominant storylines, including themes such as kinship, social mobility, Western education, modernity, and elite consolidation in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria. Vaughan brings his prodigious skills as an interdisciplinary scholar to bear on this wealth of information, bringing to life a portrait, at once intimate and expansive, of a community during a transformative period in African history.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299344509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 and 1994. The people who wrote these letters had emerged from the religious, social, and educational institutions established by the Church Missionary Society, the preeminent Anglican mission in the Atlantic Nigerian region following the imposition of British colonial rule. Abiodun, recruited to be a civil servant in the colonial Department of Agriculture, became a leader of a prominent family in Ibadan, the dominant Yoruba city in southern Nigeria. Reading deeply in these letters, Vaughan realized he had a unique set of sources to illuminate everyday life in modern Nigeria. Letter writing was a dominant form of communication for Western-educated elites in colonial Africa, especially in Nigeria. Exposure to the modern world and a growing sense of nationalism were among the factors that led people to begin exchanging letters, particularly in their interactions with British colonial authorities. Through careful textual analysis and broad contextualization, Vaughan reconstructs dominant storylines, including themes such as kinship, social mobility, Western education, modernity, and elite consolidation in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria. Vaughan brings his prodigious skills as an interdisciplinary scholar to bear on this wealth of information, bringing to life a portrait, at once intimate and expansive, of a community during a transformative period in African history.
Alayande as Educationist, 1948-1983
Author: Ezekiel Oladele Adeoti
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Aladura: a Religious Movement Among the Yoruba
Author: John David Yeadon Peel
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Religion and the Making of Nigeria
Author: Olufemi Vaughan
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
Perspectives of a Veteran
Author: E. L. Osunkunle
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Life that Touches Lives
Author: Yemi Sanda
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Category : Ibadan (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Category : Ibadan (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Ibadan
Author: Gabriel Ogundeji Ogunremi
Publisher:
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Category : Ibadan (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Publisher:
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Category : Ibadan (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Who's who in Nigeria
Author:
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Publisher:
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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History of Christianity in Ekitiland (1893-1973)
Author: Peter A. Adebiyi
Publisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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