Author: John H. Blair
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Category : Abeokuta (Nigeria : Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Abeokuta Intelligence Report
Author: John H. Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abeokuta (Nigeria : Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Publisher:
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Category : Abeokuta (Nigeria : Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN WESTERN NIGERIA: ABEOKUTA, 1830-1952.
Author: Dr. Akinniyi Savage
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469116936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The purpose of this book, Local Government in Western Nigeria: Abeokuta, 1830-1952, A case study of exemplary institutional change, is to delineate the democratization process of governmental institutions in the city of Abeokuta, western Nigeria, during the 1940s and 1950s. The Egba at Abeokuta were chosen because they are an important ethnicity within the Yoruba, the then third most populous ethnic group in Nigeria. The period from 1939 to 1952 marks the time when western Nigeria was ruled via the native administration system - the local governmental structure instituted by the British. However, the historiography of the Egba is elongated to include the formation of Abeokuta in 1830. By 1952, government was nominally extended to every constituency in Abeokuta. This presaged the comprehensive democratization movement in Nigeria.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469116936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The purpose of this book, Local Government in Western Nigeria: Abeokuta, 1830-1952, A case study of exemplary institutional change, is to delineate the democratization process of governmental institutions in the city of Abeokuta, western Nigeria, during the 1940s and 1950s. The Egba at Abeokuta were chosen because they are an important ethnicity within the Yoruba, the then third most populous ethnic group in Nigeria. The period from 1939 to 1952 marks the time when western Nigeria was ruled via the native administration system - the local governmental structure instituted by the British. However, the historiography of the Egba is elongated to include the formation of Abeokuta in 1830. By 1952, government was nominally extended to every constituency in Abeokuta. This presaged the comprehensive democratization movement in Nigeria.
Government in Abeokuta 1830-1914
Author: Agneta Pallinder-Law
Publisher:
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Category : Abeokuta (Nigeria : Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Category : Abeokuta (Nigeria : Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria
Author: Oluwatoyin Oduntan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351591622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351591622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
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.
The Egba-Ake Community of Abeokuta
Author: Adetoun Ṣọtẹ
Publisher:
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Category : Abeokuta (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Publisher:
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Category : Abeokuta (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba
Author: John David Yeadon Peel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"Peel is by training an anthropologist, but one possessed of an acute historical sensibility. Indeed, this magnificent book achieves a degree of analytical verve rare in either discipline." —History Today "[T]his is scholarship of the highest quality. . . . Peel lifts the Yoruba past to a dimension of comparative seriousness that no one else has managed. . . . The book teems with ideas . . . about big and compelling matters of very wide interest." —T. C. McCaskie In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"Peel is by training an anthropologist, but one possessed of an acute historical sensibility. Indeed, this magnificent book achieves a degree of analytical verve rare in either discipline." —History Today "[T]his is scholarship of the highest quality. . . . Peel lifts the Yoruba past to a dimension of comparative seriousness that no one else has managed. . . . The book teems with ideas . . . about big and compelling matters of very wide interest." —T. C. McCaskie In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.
Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts
Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher:
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Category : World politics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Publisher:
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Category : World politics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Report of Nutrition Survey and Applied Nutrition Programme, Abeokuta, 1968
Author: University of Ibadan. Food Science and Applied Nutrition Unit
Publisher:
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Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass
Author: Lorelle D. Semley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253004888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far more complicated than previously thought. While in Kétu, Bénin, Semley discovered that women were treasurers, advisors, ritual specialists, and colonial agents in addition to their more familiar roles as queens, wives, and sisters. These women with special influence made it difficult for the French and others to enforce an ideal of subordinate women. As she traces how women gained prominence, Semley makes clear why powerful mother figures still exist in the symbols and rituals of everyday practices.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253004888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far more complicated than previously thought. While in Kétu, Bénin, Semley discovered that women were treasurers, advisors, ritual specialists, and colonial agents in addition to their more familiar roles as queens, wives, and sisters. These women with special influence made it difficult for the French and others to enforce an ideal of subordinate women. As she traces how women gained prominence, Semley makes clear why powerful mother figures still exist in the symbols and rituals of everyday practices.
Egba Chieftaincy Institution
Author: F. I. Sotunde
Publisher:
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Category : Chiefdoms
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chiefdoms
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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