Lynn Schler
Biographic Data
| ID | 76318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Schler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Schler |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1742-8885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Decolonizing Independence: Statecraft in Nigeria’s First Republic and Israeli Interventions
Political, Economic, and Social Change in Nigeria, 1945–1960
The transition from colonialism to independence in Nigeria was marked by increasing competition between different visions for the postcolonial state and society. The economic, political, and social changes that shaped the era all contributed to growing calls for independence, but they also intensified competition between regions, political leaders, political parties, classes, and political ideologies. Throughout the process of decolonization, the…
The Sardauna's Middle East: Regionalism and Backstage Politics in Nigeria's Postcolonial Diplomacy
The Middle East conflict has been identified as one of the most polarizing issues in the history of foreign relations of Nigeria during the First Republic (1960–6). The Christian-majority southern regions supported close relations with Israel, while the Muslim-majority Northern Region aligned with Arab states. The Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, Premier of the Northern Region, is remembered as particularly hostile to Israeli incursions in Nigeria. Reviewi…
Socialismes en Afrique
Ce volume est un état de la recherche internationale sur les socialismes africains. Y sont rassemblés des articles traitant de débats théoriques autour de ce thème et de ses sources intellectuelles mais aussi d'expériences très concrètes de socialisme, tant dans les villes que dans les campagnes : coopératives, comités de quartier, camps de rééducation... La situation de l'Afrique lusophone, parent pauvre des études africaines en France, et dont …
Green Eagle Nation: The Politicization of Sports Journalism in the Post-Independence Nigerian Press - Corrigendum
Green Eagle Nation: The Politicization of Sports Journalism in the Post-Independence Nigerian Press
The sports pages of the postcolonial press provide a vantage point for viewing the tensions surrounding nation-building in Nigeria. Following independence, coverage of the Green Eagles national football team reflected aspirations for a united Nigeria, but it was also an outlet for the deep political tensions plaguing Nigeria at this time. From 1960 to 1961, contentious games against Ghanaian rivals, disputes around the choice of a national coach,…
No policies and no politics: Israeli teachers, asylum seeker pupils, and remobilized strategies of avoidance and depoliticization
Israeli teachers who teach Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seeking children find themselves struggling to accommodate these children against the background of a polarized environment. The strategies teachers employ to cope with this tension are shaped by the broader socio-political context and the hostilities directed toward African asylum seekers in Israel. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 teachers in different schools in Israel, we observed …
Space as Testimony: Collecting Oral Histories Among Nigerian Seamen
While it is widely recognized that the interview is an encounter that can produce biases, distortions, and oversights, insufficient attention has been paid to the role that physical settings play in shaping interview dynamics and outcomes. We need to deepen our awareness of how space influences what is said, how it is said, and why it is said during interviews. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted in Lagos, Nigeria, among former seamen of the Nigeria…
B ekeh U tietiang U kelina . The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria
Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina’s book The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria is a detailed investigation into the evolution of development planning in colonial Nigeria. The author asserts that until now, research on development in Africa has largely focused on the implementation and outcome of schemes in the postcolonial era, and this research attributes widespread failures to corru…
Goal dreams: Conflicting development imaginaries in Ghanaian football academies
Focusing on three Ghanaian football academies, this article examines the role that dreams and aspirations play in shaping development schemes and in determining their impact. Football ignites the hopes and imaginations of entrepreneurs, aspiring players, their parents and supporters, and these aspirations serve as a blueprint for action both among founders and participants of academies. Imagined futures give birth to development initiatives, attr…
Dilemmas of Postcolonial Diplomacy: Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, and the Middle East Crisis, 1964–73
This article examines Zambia's engagement with the Middle East conflict from 1964–73 as a window into the political strategies and ideological ambitions of Kaunda's government in the first decade of independence. At the start of independence, Kaunda's domestic agenda led him to establish ties with Israel and to advance a program for cooperative development based on Israeli technical assistance. However, broader international concerns, filtered th…
Development Shadows: The Afterlife of Collapsed Development Projects in the Zambian Copperbelt
Communities that were once the target of postcolonial development schemes still contend with the legacies of these interventions, long after such projects have been abandoned. This article looks at the afterlife of Israeli-led agricultural cooperatives that were initiated in the Zambian Copperbelt during the 1960s. Although these schemes collapsed in the decade following their establishment, local communities are still coping with the history of …
The Mandela Soccer Academy: Historical and Contemporary Intersections between Ghana, Lebanon, and the West
Since their arrival in the late nineteenth century, Lebanese immigrants have come to play an important role in Ghanaian society, especially in commerce. In community development, however, their influence is considered to be less salient, and therefore it is less researched. The present paper tries to fill this lacuna by focusing on the Mandela Soccer Academy, which was established in 2012 in Ghana by Mohammed Issa, a Lebanese-Ghanaian entrepreneu…
Seamen and the Nigerianization of Shipping in the Postcolonial Era
This article examines the impact that indigenization policies had on labor and on the cultures of work in postcolonial Nigeria. Scholars have studied indigenization in the context of nationalist politics, statecraft, and development in postcolonial Africa. However, we have little knowledge of how working classes experienced and interpreted indigenization schemes. Focusing on the indigenization of shipping, this article discusses both how Nigerian…
The facts stated do not seem to be true’: The Contested Process of Repatriation in British Colonial Nigeria
This article will examine requests for repatriation submitted by Nigerian subjects in the last decade of colonial rule in Nigeria. Requests for repatriation from this time provide insights into the motives, outcomes and impact of a growing trend among Nigerians to travel abroad for work, studies, pilgrimages and adventure. This mobility reflected both easier access to the means to travel and the empowerment of Nigerians to realise their economic,…
Becoming Nigerian: African Seamen, Decolonisation, and the Nationalisation of Consciousness
This article examines the process of nationalisation in the lives of African seamen in the era of decolonisation in order to understand why some Africans were drawn to nationalist identities at this time, and what they hoped to gain from this identification. It will be seen that in becoming Nigerian, seamen had to forfeit transnational sources of solidarity, and ultimately had to contend with new forms of exclusion and discrimination based on eth…
The Negotiations of Nigerian Seamen in the Transition from Colonialism to Independence: Smuggling to Make Ends Meet
This article examines the economic and cultural opportunities Nigerian seamen exploited in the context of their work and travels throughout the colonial era, and the impact of decolonization on their livelihoods and self-conception. During the colonial era, Nigerian seamen resisted colonial categorizations of them as a cheap and docile source of labor for British shipping companies, and maneuvered to supplement low wages through smuggling enterpr…
Transnationalism and nationalism in the Nigerian Seamen's Union
This article will examine the shifting tactics employed by Nigerian seamen in their struggles to improve their working conditions onboard Elder Dempster vessels in the late colonial period. Nigerian seamen successfully exploited opportunities arising within the context of colonialism to participate in globalised economies and cultures, exposing them to new solidarities and empowering them to seek an improvement in their lives. In crafting their o…
Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women - Pnina Werbner 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations - Beatrice Hibou 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory - Isaie Dougnon 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: lab…
History, the Nation-State, and Alternative Narratives: An Example from Colonial Douala
This article examines processes of community-building in the immigrant quarter of New Bell, Douala, during the interwar years. Historians of Douala have overlooked the history of New Bell, focusing instead on the political and economic activity of Duala's Westernized elite during this period. This historiographic oversight reflects a preoccupation with elite politics identified as the seeds of nationalism in Cameroon. An examination of the commun…
Writing African Women's History with Male Sources: Possibilities and Limitations
Colonial sources can provide historians with a wealth of information about African lives during the colonial period, but they must be read against the grain, filtering out valuable information from the biases and prejudices of European officials. The task of studying African women's history using colonial sources is even more complicated, as women were not often the focus of the colonial agenda, and contact between colonial officials and African …
Ambiguous Spaces: The Struggle Over African Identities and Urban Communities in Colonial Douala, 1914–45
This article examines the relationship between experiences and the physical and discursive constructions of space in colonial urban settings. African immigrants and the colonial regime imagined Douala's immigrant quarter, New Bell, as an African space but the actual meaning of this classification was highly fluid over time. Colonial ineffectiveness in approaching New Bell was evidenced by half-hearted and flawed surveillance efforts including the…
Bridewealth, guns and other status symbols: Immigration and consumption in colonial Douala
The flow of money and goods mediated public life within the urban immigrant community of colonial New Bell, Douala. The exchange of money was a prominent mode of communication between immigrants, as was the consumption and display of certain goods, but both of these practices were largely influenced and restricted by colonial economic policy and cultural sensibilities. At the same time, the local interpretation of the cultural meaning of colonial…
Looking through a Glass of Beer: Alcohol in the Cultural Spaces of Colonial Douala, 1910-1945
Ambiguous Spaces: The Struggle Over African Identities and Urban Communities in Colonial Douala, 1914–45
This article examines the relationship between experiences and the physical and discursive constructions of space in colonial urban settings. African immigrants and the colonial regime imagined Douala's immigrant quarter, New Bell, as an African space but the actual meaning of this classification was highly fluid over time. Colonial ineffectiveness in approaching New Bell was evidenced by half-hearted and flawed surveillance efforts including the…
Development Shadows: The Afterlife of Collapsed Development Projects in the Zambian Copperbelt
Communities that were once the target of postcolonial development schemes still contend with the legacies of these interventions, long after such projects have been abandoned. This article looks at the afterlife of Israeli-led agricultural cooperatives that were initiated in the Zambian Copperbelt during the 1960s. Although these schemes collapsed in the decade following their establishment, local communities are still coping with the history of …
Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women - Pnina Werbner 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations - Beatrice Hibou 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory - Isaie Dougnon 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: lab…
No policies and no politics: Israeli teachers, asylum seeker pupils, and remobilized strategies of avoidance and depoliticization
Israeli teachers who teach Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seeking children find themselves struggling to accommodate these children against the background of a polarized environment. The strategies teachers employ to cope with this tension are shaped by the broader socio-political context and the hostilities directed toward African asylum seekers in Israel. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 teachers in different schools in Israel, we observed …
Transnationalism and nationalism in the Nigerian Seamen's Union
This article will examine the shifting tactics employed by Nigerian seamen in their struggles to improve their working conditions onboard Elder Dempster vessels in the late colonial period. Nigerian seamen successfully exploited opportunities arising within the context of colonialism to participate in globalised economies and cultures, exposing them to new solidarities and empowering them to seek an improvement in their lives. In crafting their o…
History, the Nation-State, and Alternative Narratives: An Example from Colonial Douala
This article examines processes of community-building in the immigrant quarter of New Bell, Douala, during the interwar years. Historians of Douala have overlooked the history of New Bell, focusing instead on the political and economic activity of Duala's Westernized elite during this period. This historiographic oversight reflects a preoccupation with elite politics identified as the seeds of nationalism in Cameroon. An examination of the commun…
The Sardauna's Middle East: Regionalism and Backstage Politics in Nigeria's Postcolonial Diplomacy
The Middle East conflict has been identified as one of the most polarizing issues in the history of foreign relations of Nigeria during the First Republic (1960–6). The Christian-majority southern regions supported close relations with Israel, while the Muslim-majority Northern Region aligned with Arab states. The Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, Premier of the Northern Region, is remembered as particularly hostile to Israeli incursions in Nigeria. Reviewi…
Dilemmas of Postcolonial Diplomacy: Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, and the Middle East Crisis, 1964–73
This article examines Zambia's engagement with the Middle East conflict from 1964–73 as a window into the political strategies and ideological ambitions of Kaunda's government in the first decade of independence. At the start of independence, Kaunda's domestic agenda led him to establish ties with Israel and to advance a program for cooperative development based on Israeli technical assistance. However, broader international concerns, filtered th…
The facts stated do not seem to be true’: The Contested Process of Repatriation in British Colonial Nigeria
This article will examine requests for repatriation submitted by Nigerian subjects in the last decade of colonial rule in Nigeria. Requests for repatriation from this time provide insights into the motives, outcomes and impact of a growing trend among Nigerians to travel abroad for work, studies, pilgrimages and adventure. This mobility reflected both easier access to the means to travel and the empowerment of Nigerians to realise their economic,…
Writing African Women's History with Male Sources: Possibilities and Limitations
Colonial sources can provide historians with a wealth of information about African lives during the colonial period, but they must be read against the grain, filtering out valuable information from the biases and prejudices of European officials. The task of studying African women's history using colonial sources is even more complicated, as women were not often the focus of the colonial agenda, and contact between colonial officials and African …
Looking through a Glass of Beer: Alcohol in the Cultural Spaces of Colonial Douala, 1910-1945
Green Eagle Nation: The Politicization of Sports Journalism in the Post-Independence Nigerian Press
The sports pages of the postcolonial press provide a vantage point for viewing the tensions surrounding nation-building in Nigeria. Following independence, coverage of the Green Eagles national football team reflected aspirations for a united Nigeria, but it was also an outlet for the deep political tensions plaguing Nigeria at this time. From 1960 to 1961, contentious games against Ghanaian rivals, disputes around the choice of a national coach,…
Goal dreams: Conflicting development imaginaries in Ghanaian football academies
Focusing on three Ghanaian football academies, this article examines the role that dreams and aspirations play in shaping development schemes and in determining their impact. Football ignites the hopes and imaginations of entrepreneurs, aspiring players, their parents and supporters, and these aspirations serve as a blueprint for action both among founders and participants of academies. Imagined futures give birth to development initiatives, attr…
The Mandela Soccer Academy: Historical and Contemporary Intersections between Ghana, Lebanon, and the West
Since their arrival in the late nineteenth century, Lebanese immigrants have come to play an important role in Ghanaian society, especially in commerce. In community development, however, their influence is considered to be less salient, and therefore it is less researched. The present paper tries to fill this lacuna by focusing on the Mandela Soccer Academy, which was established in 2012 in Ghana by Mohammed Issa, a Lebanese-Ghanaian entrepreneu…
Becoming Nigerian: African Seamen, Decolonisation, and the Nationalisation of Consciousness
This article examines the process of nationalisation in the lives of African seamen in the era of decolonisation in order to understand why some Africans were drawn to nationalist identities at this time, and what they hoped to gain from this identification. It will be seen that in becoming Nigerian, seamen had to forfeit transnational sources of solidarity, and ultimately had to contend with new forms of exclusion and discrimination based on eth…
Bridewealth, guns and other status symbols: Immigration and consumption in colonial Douala
The flow of money and goods mediated public life within the urban immigrant community of colonial New Bell, Douala. The exchange of money was a prominent mode of communication between immigrants, as was the consumption and display of certain goods, but both of these practices were largely influenced and restricted by colonial economic policy and cultural sensibilities. At the same time, the local interpretation of the cultural meaning of colonial…
Looking through a Glass of Beer: Alcohol in the Cultural Spaces of Colonial Douala, 1910-1945
Ambiguous Spaces: The Struggle Over African Identities and Urban Communities in Colonial Douala, 1914–45
This article examines the relationship between experiences and the physical and discursive constructions of space in colonial urban settings. African immigrants and the colonial regime imagined Douala's immigrant quarter, New Bell, as an African space but the actual meaning of this classification was highly fluid over time. Colonial ineffectiveness in approaching New Bell was evidenced by half-hearted and flawed surveillance efforts including the…
Bridewealth, guns and other status symbols: Immigration and consumption in colonial Douala
The flow of money and goods mediated public life within the urban immigrant community of colonial New Bell, Douala. The exchange of money was a prominent mode of communication between immigrants, as was the consumption and display of certain goods, but both of these practices were largely influenced and restricted by colonial economic policy and cultural sensibilities. At the same time, the local interpretation of the cultural meaning of colonial…
Writing African Women's History with Male Sources: Possibilities and Limitations
Colonial sources can provide historians with a wealth of information about African lives during the colonial period, but they must be read against the grain, filtering out valuable information from the biases and prejudices of European officials. The task of studying African women's history using colonial sources is even more complicated, as women were not often the focus of the colonial agenda, and contact between colonial officials and African …
History, the Nation-State, and Alternative Narratives: An Example from Colonial Douala
This article examines processes of community-building in the immigrant quarter of New Bell, Douala, during the interwar years. Historians of Douala have overlooked the history of New Bell, focusing instead on the political and economic activity of Duala's Westernized elite during this period. This historiographic oversight reflects a preoccupation with elite politics identified as the seeds of nationalism in Cameroon. An examination of the commun…
Transnationalism and nationalism in the Nigerian Seamen's Union
This article will examine the shifting tactics employed by Nigerian seamen in their struggles to improve their working conditions onboard Elder Dempster vessels in the late colonial period. Nigerian seamen successfully exploited opportunities arising within the context of colonialism to participate in globalised economies and cultures, exposing them to new solidarities and empowering them to seek an improvement in their lives. In crafting their o…
Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women - Pnina Werbner 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations - Beatrice Hibou 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory - Isaie Dougnon 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: lab…
Becoming Nigerian: African Seamen, Decolonisation, and the Nationalisation of Consciousness
This article examines the process of nationalisation in the lives of African seamen in the era of decolonisation in order to understand why some Africans were drawn to nationalist identities at this time, and what they hoped to gain from this identification. It will be seen that in becoming Nigerian, seamen had to forfeit transnational sources of solidarity, and ultimately had to contend with new forms of exclusion and discrimination based on eth…
The Negotiations of Nigerian Seamen in the Transition from Colonialism to Independence: Smuggling to Make Ends Meet
This article examines the economic and cultural opportunities Nigerian seamen exploited in the context of their work and travels throughout the colonial era, and the impact of decolonization on their livelihoods and self-conception. During the colonial era, Nigerian seamen resisted colonial categorizations of them as a cheap and docile source of labor for British shipping companies, and maneuvered to supplement low wages through smuggling enterpr…
The facts stated do not seem to be true’: The Contested Process of Repatriation in British Colonial Nigeria
This article will examine requests for repatriation submitted by Nigerian subjects in the last decade of colonial rule in Nigeria. Requests for repatriation from this time provide insights into the motives, outcomes and impact of a growing trend among Nigerians to travel abroad for work, studies, pilgrimages and adventure. This mobility reflected both easier access to the means to travel and the empowerment of Nigerians to realise their economic,…
Seamen and the Nigerianization of Shipping in the Postcolonial Era
This article examines the impact that indigenization policies had on labor and on the cultures of work in postcolonial Nigeria. Scholars have studied indigenization in the context of nationalist politics, statecraft, and development in postcolonial Africa. However, we have little knowledge of how working classes experienced and interpreted indigenization schemes. Focusing on the indigenization of shipping, this article discusses both how Nigerian…
The Mandela Soccer Academy: Historical and Contemporary Intersections between Ghana, Lebanon, and the West
Since their arrival in the late nineteenth century, Lebanese immigrants have come to play an important role in Ghanaian society, especially in commerce. In community development, however, their influence is considered to be less salient, and therefore it is less researched. The present paper tries to fill this lacuna by focusing on the Mandela Soccer Academy, which was established in 2012 in Ghana by Mohammed Issa, a Lebanese-Ghanaian entrepreneu…
Dilemmas of Postcolonial Diplomacy: Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, and the Middle East Crisis, 1964–73
This article examines Zambia's engagement with the Middle East conflict from 1964–73 as a window into the political strategies and ideological ambitions of Kaunda's government in the first decade of independence. At the start of independence, Kaunda's domestic agenda led him to establish ties with Israel and to advance a program for cooperative development based on Israeli technical assistance. However, broader international concerns, filtered th…
Development Shadows: The Afterlife of Collapsed Development Projects in the Zambian Copperbelt
Communities that were once the target of postcolonial development schemes still contend with the legacies of these interventions, long after such projects have been abandoned. This article looks at the afterlife of Israeli-led agricultural cooperatives that were initiated in the Zambian Copperbelt during the 1960s. Although these schemes collapsed in the decade following their establishment, local communities are still coping with the history of …
No policies and no politics: Israeli teachers, asylum seeker pupils, and remobilized strategies of avoidance and depoliticization
Israeli teachers who teach Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seeking children find themselves struggling to accommodate these children against the background of a polarized environment. The strategies teachers employ to cope with this tension are shaped by the broader socio-political context and the hostilities directed toward African asylum seekers in Israel. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 teachers in different schools in Israel, we observed …
Space as Testimony: Collecting Oral Histories Among Nigerian Seamen
While it is widely recognized that the interview is an encounter that can produce biases, distortions, and oversights, insufficient attention has been paid to the role that physical settings play in shaping interview dynamics and outcomes. We need to deepen our awareness of how space influences what is said, how it is said, and why it is said during interviews. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted in Lagos, Nigeria, among former seamen of the Nigeria…
B ekeh U tietiang U kelina . The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria
Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina’s book The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria is a detailed investigation into the evolution of development planning in colonial Nigeria. The author asserts that until now, research on development in Africa has largely focused on the implementation and outcome of schemes in the postcolonial era, and this research attributes widespread failures to corru…
Goal dreams: Conflicting development imaginaries in Ghanaian football academies
Focusing on three Ghanaian football academies, this article examines the role that dreams and aspirations play in shaping development schemes and in determining their impact. Football ignites the hopes and imaginations of entrepreneurs, aspiring players, their parents and supporters, and these aspirations serve as a blueprint for action both among founders and participants of academies. Imagined futures give birth to development initiatives, attr…
Green Eagle Nation: The Politicization of Sports Journalism in the Post-Independence Nigerian Press
The sports pages of the postcolonial press provide a vantage point for viewing the tensions surrounding nation-building in Nigeria. Following independence, coverage of the Green Eagles national football team reflected aspirations for a united Nigeria, but it was also an outlet for the deep political tensions plaguing Nigeria at this time. From 1960 to 1961, contentious games against Ghanaian rivals, disputes around the choice of a national coach,…
Socialismes en Afrique
Ce volume est un état de la recherche internationale sur les socialismes africains. Y sont rassemblés des articles traitant de débats théoriques autour de ce thème et de ses sources intellectuelles mais aussi d'expériences très concrètes de socialisme, tant dans les villes que dans les campagnes : coopératives, comités de quartier, camps de rééducation... La situation de l'Afrique lusophone, parent pauvre des études africaines en France, et dont …
Green Eagle Nation: The Politicization of Sports Journalism in the Post-Independence Nigerian Press - Corrigendum
Decolonizing Independence: Statecraft in Nigeria’s First Republic and Israeli Interventions
Political, Economic, and Social Change in Nigeria, 1945–1960
The transition from colonialism to independence in Nigeria was marked by increasing competition between different visions for the postcolonial state and society. The economic, political, and social changes that shaped the era all contributed to growing calls for independence, but they also intensified competition between regions, political leaders, political parties, classes, and political ideologies. Throughout the process of decolonization, the…
The Sardauna's Middle East: Regionalism and Backstage Politics in Nigeria's Postcolonial Diplomacy
The Middle East conflict has been identified as one of the most polarizing issues in the history of foreign relations of Nigeria during the First Republic (1960–6). The Christian-majority southern regions supported close relations with Israel, while the Muslim-majority Northern Region aligned with Arab states. The Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, Premier of the Northern Region, is remembered as particularly hostile to Israeli incursions in Nigeria. Reviewi…
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