Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part One: The Foundation of Knowledge
1. A Preface to Academic Historiography
2. K. O. Dike and the National Archives of Nigeria

Part Two: Varieties of History
3. Political History
4. Economic History
5. Social History
6. Women's History and the Reconfiguration of Gender

Part Three: Nationalist Historians and Their Work
7. Adiele Afigbo: Igbo, Nigerian, and African Studies
8. J. F. Ade Ajayi: Missionaries, Warfare, and Nationalism
9. J. A. Atanda: Yoruba Ethnicity
10. Bolanle Awe: Yoruba and Gender Studies
11. Obaro Ikime: Intergroup Relations and the Search for Nigerians
12. G. O. Olusanya: Contemporary Nigeria
13. Tekena N. Tamuno: Pan-Nigeriana
14. Yusufu Bala Usman: Radicalism and Neocolonialism

Part Four: Reflections on History and the Nation-State
15. Nigeria in the World of African Historiography
16. Fragmented Nation and Fragmented Histories

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Saheed Aderinto, Saheed (Customer) Aderinto, Professor Toyin (Series Editor) Falola, Toyin Falola
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2011
• EAN: 9781580463584
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-358-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Weight: 708 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education