Nigeria, a Country Study - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nigeria, a Country Study write by Carlyn Dawn Anderson. This book was released on 1979. Nigeria, a Country Study available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History
Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History write by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2010. Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist historiography and the leading themes. The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by Nigerians in thecontext of the rise and decline of African nationalist historiography. Given the diminishing share in the global output of literature on Africa by African historians, it has become crucial to reintroduce Africans into historicalwriting about Africa. As the authors attempt here to rescue older voices, they also rehabilitate a stale historiography by revisiting the issues, ideas, and moments that produced it. This revivalism also challenges Nigerian historians of the twenty-first century to study the nation in new ways, to comprehend its modernity, and to frame a new set of questions on Nigeria's future and globalization. In spite of current problems in Nigeria and its universities, that historical scholarship on Nigeria (and by extension, Africa) has come of age is indisputable. From a country that struggled for Western academic recognition in the 1950s to one that by the 1980s had emerged as one of the most studied countries in Africa, Nigeria is not only one of the early birthplaces of modern African history, but has also produced members of the first generation of African historians whose contributions to the development and expansion of modern African history is undeniable. Like their counterparts working on other parts of the world, these scholars have been sensitive to the need to explore virtually all aspects of Nigerian history. The book highlights the careers of some of Nigeria's notable historians of the first and second generation. Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Saheed Aderinto is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University.
Nigeria
Nigeria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nigeria write by John Campbell. This book was released on 2013-06-06. Nigeria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nigeria, the United States’ most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the disastrous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the radical Islamic insurrection Boko Haram, and escalating violence in the delta and the north may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into the abyss of state failure. In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbellexplores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very troubled giant to the edge. Central to his analysis are the oil wealth, endemic corruption, and elite competition that have undermined Nigeria’s nascent democratic institutions and alienated an increasingly impoverished population. However, state failure is not inevitable, nor is it in the interest of the United States. Campbell provides concrete new policy options that would not only allow the United States to help Nigeria avoid state failure but also to play a positive role in Nigeria’s political, social, and economic development.
There Was a Country
There Was a Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook There Was a Country write by Chinua Achebe. This book was released on 2012-10-11. There Was a Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Growing Apart
Growing Apart - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Apart write by Peter Lewis. This book was released on 2007-04-17. Growing Apart available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of how oil--and oil money--transformed political life in two major producer-nations
