Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History

The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa's most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious communities, economic partnerships, and immigrant and diasporic cultures. This transnational approach incorporates the most important ideas from the new scholarship emerging in the 21st century, creating a forward-looking volume appropriate for a dynamic, diverse, and swiftly changing Nigeria.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Matthew M. Heaton and Toyin Falola


• Part I: Knowledge Production and Epistemologies of Nigerian History


• 1. Indigenous Knowledge and Oral Traditions in Nigeria


• Toyin Falola


• 2. Archaeology, Linguistics, and Early Histories of Nigeria


• Constanze Weise


• 3. Islamic Education in Nigeria


• Mustapha Hashim Kurfi


• 4. Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography of Nigeria


• Sati U. Fwatshak


• Part II: States and Societies to the Nineteenth Century


• 5. Prehistoric Developments in Nigeria


• Peter Breunig


• 6. The Origins of Kingdoms and Empires in Precolonial Nigeria


• Vincent Hiribarren


• 7. State Management and Political Institutions in Nigeria before 1800


• Osarhieme Benson Osadolor


• 8. Economic Production and Exchange of States and Societies in Precolonial Nigeria


• Aribidesi Usman


• 9. Religion in Precolonial Nigeria


• Shobana Shankar


• 10. European Contact with Nigeria and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade


• Matthew M. Heaton


• 11. Abolition, Legitimate Commerce, and Christianity in Nigeria


• Ayodeji Olukoju


• 12. Political Revolutions in Nineteenth Century Nigeria


• Toyin Falola


• Part III: Colonial Rule and the Making of Nigeria


• 13. The Conquest of Nigeria


• Abubakar Babajo Sani


• 14. The Colonial Administration of Nigeria


• Olufemi Vaughan


• 15. Colonial Economies of Nigeria


• Steven Pierce


• 16. Gender, Class, and Culture in Colonial Nigeria


• Funmilayo Idowu Agbaje


• 17. Nigeria and the World Wars


• Oliver Coates


• 18. Political, Economic, and Social Change in Nigeria, 1945-1960


• Lynn Schler


• Part IV: Nigeria Since Independence


• 19. Federalism and the First Republic of Nigeria, 1960-1966


• Rotimi T. Suberu


• 20. The Nigerian Civil War and Its Legacies


• Roy Doron


• 21. The Nigerian Oil Economy and the Rentier State


• Adeoye O. Akinola


• 22. Dictatorship and Democracy in Nigeria, 1966-1999


• Eghosa E. Osaghae


• 23. Religious Nationalisms in Nigeria


• Matthews A. Ojo


• 24. Ethnic Nationalism and Minority Politics in Nigeria


• Akin Iwilade and Iwebunor Okwechime


• 25. Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts in Nigeria


• Toyin Falola


• 26. Women and Gender Relations in Twenty-First Century Nigeria


• Adanna Ogbonna-Oluikpe


• 27. Agriculture, Environment, and Sustainable Development in Nigeria


• Chima J. Korieh


• 28. Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Built Environment in Nigeria


• Toyin Falola


• 29. An Afrocentric Overview of Education, Health, and Welfare Service in Twenty-First Century Nigeria


• Jamaine M. Abidogun


• 30. Federalism and Politics in Nigeria's Fourth Republic


• Cyril Obi and Godwin Onuoha


• 31. Dimensions of Nigeria's National Security and Development Challenges in Changing Global Contexts


• N. Oluwafemi Mimiko


• Part V: Nigeria in the World


• 32. Nigeria's Impact on Diasporic Cultures in the Americas


• Matt D. Childs


• 33. Nigeria and the Global Umma


• Brandon Kendhammer


• 34. Migrants, Immigrants, and the New Nigerian Diaspora


• Onoso Imoagene


• 35. Nigeria and African Affairs


• Adebayo Oyebade


• 36. Nigerian Diplomacy, Foreign Relations, and International Entanglements


• Toyin Falola


• Index

About the author

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 is an Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights, University of the Free State. He had served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of 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 fourteen honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on Nigeria, including A History of Nigeria; Nigerian Political Modernity; Violence in Nigeria; Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria, and Understanding Nigeria.

Matthew M. Heaton is an Associate Professor in the Department of

History at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the history of health and illness, migration, and globalization in Africa with particular emphasis on Nigeria. He is the author of Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry and co-author of A History of Nigeria.

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa's most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious communities, economic partnerships, and immigrant and diasporic cultures.

Consisting of 36 chapters, the Handbook is separated into five major sections, starting with the historiography of Nigeria--namely, the systems of knowledge handed down by the indigenous, Christian, Islamic, colonial, and post-colonial traditions. From that foundation, the chapters cover the development of nomadic and agricultural societies, the colonial era, the emergence of a modern Nigeria, and the impact of Nigerians outside of the country's borders. This transnational approach incorporates the most important ideas from the new scholarship emerging in the 21st century, creating a forward-looking volume appropriate for a dynamic, diverse, and swiftly changing Nigeria.

Product details

• Authors: Toyin Falola, Matthew Heaton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780190050092
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005009-2
• No. of pages: 792
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, African History, History of other lands, History: theory and methods