Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Genova, Ann; Falola, Toyin

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580466622
• Artikelnr.: 63932577

Autorenporträt

Ann Genova, Toyin Falola

Inhaltsangabe

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