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Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-58046-219-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
Erscheinungstermin: 26.06.2006
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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.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781580462198
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-58046-219-8
  • Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
  • Erscheinungstermin: 26.06.2006
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2006
  • Serie: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
  • Produktform: Gebunden, Print PDF
  • Gewicht: 771 g
  • Seiten: 380
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 233 x 30 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Genova, Ann

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.

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

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.

Akinwumi, Tunde M.

Oduwobi, Tunde

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