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The Roots of Political Instability in Nigeria
The constant drumbeat of headlines about Darfur, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia, as well as the other states in Africa that are beleaguered by political instability have made the causes of failed states and intra-state political conflicts a major issue, both academic and practical. Using Harry Eckstein and Ted R. Gurr's congruence-consonance theoretical framework of regime classification, E.C. Ejiogu examines the internal variations of society evident in the Nigerian state to explain why the country experiences political conflict and instability. The first time this theoretical framework has been applied to an African country; E.C. Ejiogu offers a balanced and interdisciplinary analysis of the evolution in the Nigerian political system and the role played by evolved social traits in society. Exploring themes such as colonial rule and legacies, economic development, political authority and religion, Ejiogu insists that it is critical to examine Africa's diverse nationalities in terms of their geography, social, economic and authority patterns as critical elements that are disregarded in accounts of their political development. At a time when the question of state building in Africa is still unresolved, this timely book is a major contribution to the literature on transition processes in African politics and is particularly relevant to scholars and policy makers wanting to grapple with the issues associated with Africa's political disorder and the other social problems it spawns.
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Masquerading politics : kinship, gender, and ethnicity in a Yoruba town
In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances, and the institutional structures in which masquerade was used to reveal ongoing changes in notions of gender, kinship, and ethnic identity. As Willis focuses on performers and spectators, he reveals a history of masquerade that is rich and complex. His research offers a more nuanced understanding of performance practices in Africa and their role in forging alliances, consolidating state power, incorporating immigrants, executing criminals, and projecting individual and group power on both sides of the Afro-Atlantic world.--Publisher's summary.
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Lugard and the Abẹokuta Uprising
First published in 1982.This book, makes sense of Lugard's administration in Egbaland, by to devoting space to the history, religion, and political structure created by the African peoples of western Nigeria.
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The cult of Awo: the political life of a dead leader
This essay examines the 'posthumous career' of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the late leader of the Yoruba of Nigeria. It focuses on why he has been unusually effective as a symbol in the politics of Yorubaland and Nigeria. Regarding Awolowo as a recent ancestor, the essay elaborates why death, burial and statue are useful in the analysis of the social history of, and elite politics in, Africa. The Awolowo case is used to contest secularist and modernist assumptions about 'modernity' and 'rationality' in a contemporary African society.
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DEATH, NATIONAL MEMORY AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEROISM
Ancestors occupy a central place in African cosmologies and social practices. The death and the remembrance of Lt-Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, the Military Governor of Western Nigeria who was killed during a military coup in 1966, is used in this essay to critique the assumptions in the literature about ancestors, by linking the recent dead with the long dead in a lineage of ancestral practices. I focus on the ways in which Fajuyi's death was used in constructing ethno-national memory and history in the context of 21st-century challenges faced by the Yoruba in national politics, particularly in relation to unequal ethno-regional relations. Here, I attempt to historicize commemoration as a ritual of ethno-national validation.
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The Ile Nla: A Colonial Town Hall in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
The Ile Nla is a Nigerian town hall built in 1922 and may be the only colonial structure that integrated European and local architectural elements. This hall was the government center for the council of chiefs and continues to play a prominent role in social, religious, and political events.
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The geography of regime survival: Abacha’s Nigeria
This article examines the state-creation process in Nigeria in the context of military regime survival in the 1990s. Nigeria entered a period of protracted political crisis following the annulment of the 12 June 1993 presidential election and the entrenchment of the Abacha military government. The southwest, or Yorubaland,was the hotbed of opposition to continued military rule. This research shows how the Abacha government utilized the neo-colonial strategy of ‘divide and survive’ to fragment opposition in Yorubaland, and how the government divided regional opposition both socially and spatially. A local coalition of Ekiti elites chose statehood over solidarity with their fellow Yorubas opposing Abacha, particularly those aligned with Afenifere and the Oduduwa People’s Congress. New state movements — like that for Ekiti State — promoted more local identities at the expense of pan-Yoruba solidarity and unified opposition to the regime. The article is based on six months of fieldwork in Nigeria in 2002, including a case study of the movement for the creation of Ekiti State. Overall, it seeks to contribute to our understanding of the geography of regime survival.
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CHIEFTAINCY POLITICS AND COMMUNAL IDENTITY IN WESTERN NIGERIA, 1893–1951
This article examines the dimensions of indigenous political structures that sustained local governance in colonial Yorubaland. Legitimated by reconstructed traditional political authorities and modern concepts of development, Yoruba indigenous political structures were distorted by the system of indirect rule. Conversely, obas (Yoruba monarchs), baales (head chiefs), chiefs, Western-educated Christian elites and Muslim merchants embraced contending interpretations of traditional authorities to reinforce and expand their power in a rapidly shifting colonial context. With a strong emphasis on development and governance, collective political action also entailed the struggle over the distributive resources of the colonial state. Traditional and modern political leaders deployed strong communal ideologies and traditional themes that defined competing Yoruba communities as natives and outsiders.
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Managing multiple minority problems in a divided society: the Nigerian experience
The management of ethnic problems has tended to be complicated
by
the complex ethnic situations which give rise to them. It is known for
example that ethnicity rarely exists in a pure form, being usually
combined with other conflict-generating cleavages, such as religion,
race, class and regionalism, in mutually reinforcing ways. Ethnicity is
also situational, fluid and intermittent, while ethnic boundaries are
constantly changing. In addition, levels of ethnic consciousness and
political mobilisation differ among groups, for reasons of different
perceptions of relative privileges or deprivation, history of inter-group
relations, effects of state policies or actions, dispositions and strategies
adopted by other competing groups, and so on. For these and other
reasons, common stimuli like democratisation, economic prosperity or
decline, and transformatory social processes, all of which impact on
ethnicity, produce different effects on ethnic groups. These differences and complexities have implications for the
management of ethnic problems and conflicts. For one thing, ethnic
conflicts tend to be intractable, especially where their management
does not take full account of their complexity. The temptation to
proffer catch-all management formulae, such as federalism, bills of
rights, secularity and so on, as if all ethnic conflicts can be dealt with
uniformly or in one fell swoop, is the product of the fallacy of
oversimplification. It goes without saying that conflict situations must
be properly understood for the appropriate ‘therapies’ to be
formulated
and applied. If this is done, it will be found that more nuanced solutions
are required to cope with the demands of the complex situations.
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