Wale Adebanwi

Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781107696662
• ISBN-10: 1107696666
• Artikelnr.: 44893043

Autorenporträt

Wale Adebanwi is Associate Professor in the Program in African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. Elite agency: the making of the modern progenitor
2. The secular ancestor: the political life of a dead leader
Part II: 3. The politics of heritage: (re)constitution, conservation and corporateness in Yorùbá politics
4. The mantle of Awo: the politics of succession
5. Reconciliation and retrenchment
6. How (not) to be a proper Yorùbá
7. Seizing the heritage: playing proper Yorùbá in an age of uncertainty
Conclusion: corporate agency and ethnic politics.