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"Toyin Falola explains the conquest, administration, and the transformational changes in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century in Nigeria. Its depth of analysis makes it a resourceful book for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Introduction: 1. The colonial archives and alternative voices; 2. Narrating colonial Nigeria; Part II. Conquest and Colonization: 3. Peoples and states in the nineteenth century; 4. Prelude to colonization: trade and missions; 5. Lagos and the Niger area; 6. Conquest and reactions; 7. Administrative experimentation, boundary formation, and colonial consolidation, 1900–1914; Part III. Colonial Societies: 8. The First World War and its aftermath; 9. The interwar years; 10. Indirect rule and the native administration; 11. Administration of justice, legal system, and law enforcement; 12. Colonial economy; 13. Western education; 14. Social changes; 15. Women; 16. Religions; 17. Health and medicine; 18. Cultures; 19. Urbanization; 20. Creativity and aesthetics; Part IV. Nationalism and Independence: 21. Reform movements before 1940; 22. The Second World War and its aftermath; 23. Trade unions and politics; 24. Party politics and personalities; 25. Constitutions and the emergence of federalism; 26. Regionalism and politics in the 1950s; Part V. Conclusion: 27. Colonial legacies.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of the UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars' Council, Kluge Center, the Library of Congress. He has received over thirty lifetime career awards and seventeen honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on African knowledge systems, including Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa (2021), African Spirituality, Politics and Knowledge Systems: Sacred Words and Holy Realm (2021) and Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency and Voice (2022). He is also the series coeditor for Cambridge University Press's African Identities series.
Zusammenfassung
Toyin Falola explains the conquest, administration, and the transformational changes in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century in Nigeria. Its depth of analysis makes it a resourceful book for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars.
Vorwort
Analysis of British rule in colonial Nigeria and what events led to the foundation of postcolonial Nigeria using neglected conversations.
