[PDF] Nigeria Past To The Present eBook

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1139472038

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Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.

Author : Amaechi Nzekwe
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Children's stories, Nigerian (English)
ISBN :

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Seven short stories, beginning and ending with Adanna Olisa and her trip to Germany, provide glimpses of the culture and values of Nigeria.

Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1538197812

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Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.

Author : Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0230112609

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His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.

Author : Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :

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Nigeria's Urban History is a collection of sixteen peer-reviewed essays that explore the nature of Nigeria's urbanism and the challenges it faces. Beginning with analysis of the role of colonialism in the country's urban identity, the volume examines the role of the present oil economy, gender issues, human interactions, poverty, crime, prostitution, and transportation on the nature of urban life and culture. The insights of this collection will benefit students and researchers, historians and social scientists, policymakers and planners alike.

Author : Stephen Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 019049431X

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Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made little appeal to the young Nigerian'. This book traces the origins of Nigerian organised crime to the last years of colonial rule, when nationalist politicians acquired power at a regional level. In need of funds for campaigning, they offered government contracts to foreign businesses in return for kickbacks, in a pattern that recurs to this day. Political corruption encouraged a wider disrespect for the law that spread throughout Nigerian society. When the country's oil boom came to an end in the early 1980s, young Nigerian college graduates headed abroad, eager to make money by any means. Nigerian crime went global at the very moment new criminal markets were emerging all over the world.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : History
ISBN :

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Presents a history of Nigeria from its earliest beginnings to the present, discussing its geography, political institutions, economic structure, culture, and ethnic groups.