Author: Kristin Mann
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Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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A Social History of the New African Elite in Lagos Colony, 1880-1913
Author: Kristin Mann
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Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Colonial Subjects
Author: Philip Serge Zachernuk
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subjects. Against the tendency to view this engagement as a confrontation between the modern west and traditional Africa, Philip S. Zachernuk argues that the interaction is far more fluid and diverse. Challenging the frequent denigration of western-educated Africans as a culturally barren "kleptocratic" elite, Colonial Subjects shows that they occupied a shifting medial position between colonizers and colonized. In the process they created a distinctive intellectual culture grounded in indigenous and European sources. Looking carefully at southern Nigeria from 1840 to 1960, Zachernuk locates intellectuals in the contours of their society as it changed from late precolonial times to the beginning of independence. He examines their engagement with British and Black Atlantic assumptions and assertions about Africa's place in the world. These ideas, shaped by the needs of others, became the often awkward material with which these intellectuals endeavored to construct their own image of their home continent. In this context, a group of Nigerian intellectuals created a dynamic intellectual tradition motivated by self-interest and marked by innovation, counter-invention, and imitation within the confines of the Atlantic world. At different times they opposed and supported the colonial state, adopted and rejected notions of racial destiny, and advocated free market principles, cooperative self-help, and state socialism. Colonial Subjects provides a historical framework for connecting these divergent ideas, thereby recovering the complexity of an intellectual tradition both colonial and modern.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subjects. Against the tendency to view this engagement as a confrontation between the modern west and traditional Africa, Philip S. Zachernuk argues that the interaction is far more fluid and diverse. Challenging the frequent denigration of western-educated Africans as a culturally barren "kleptocratic" elite, Colonial Subjects shows that they occupied a shifting medial position between colonizers and colonized. In the process they created a distinctive intellectual culture grounded in indigenous and European sources. Looking carefully at southern Nigeria from 1840 to 1960, Zachernuk locates intellectuals in the contours of their society as it changed from late precolonial times to the beginning of independence. He examines their engagement with British and Black Atlantic assumptions and assertions about Africa's place in the world. These ideas, shaped by the needs of others, became the often awkward material with which these intellectuals endeavored to construct their own image of their home continent. In this context, a group of Nigerian intellectuals created a dynamic intellectual tradition motivated by self-interest and marked by innovation, counter-invention, and imitation within the confines of the Atlantic world. At different times they opposed and supported the colonial state, adopted and rejected notions of racial destiny, and advocated free market principles, cooperative self-help, and state socialism. Colonial Subjects provides a historical framework for connecting these divergent ideas, thereby recovering the complexity of an intellectual tradition both colonial and modern.
History of the Peoples of Lagos State
Author: Ade Adefuye
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Category : Lagos State (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Category : Lagos State (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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The Historic Akoto
Author: Roger Gocking
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Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Intellectual Life in a Colonial Context
Author: Philip Serge Zachernuk
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Abia Journal of the Humanities and the Social Sciences
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (WAAD): Religion, culture, and society
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Category : African diaspora
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : African diaspora
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Democracy and the Elite in Nigeria
Author: Paul Beckett
Publisher: African Studies Program University of Wisconsin
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Publisher: African Studies Program University of Wisconsin
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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