Olufemi Vaughan
Biographic Data
| ID | 80341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olufemi Vaughan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olufemi |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaughan |
| SIGNATURE | VAUGHAN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Colonial Administration of Nigeria
The chapter examines the implementation of colonial policies in the Nigerian region from the turn of the twentieth century to the middle of the century when Nigeria gained independence from Britain in 1960. It underscores three major transformations in the history of Nigerian colonial administration: first, the early period of colonial rule when British authorities imposed the indirect rule system on Nigerian communities from the early twentieth …
Understanding Modern Nigeria: Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development, written by Toyin Falola
Toyin Falola, 2021. Understanding Modern Nigeria: Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. viii–xviii; 672 pp.; price not stated. ISBN: 9781108947633In Understanding Modern Nigeria: Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development, Toyin Falola, foremost chronicler of Nigerian historical, political, and cultural studies has given us another authoritative book that critically explores the serious challenges confrontin…
Explaining transhumance-related violence: Fulani Ethnic Militia in rural Nigeria
Terrorist attacks, land resource competition and violent farmer-herder conflicts
Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria. By Ebenezer Obadare
Pentecostal Republic is the first book on Nigeria’s Pentecostal revolution during the country’s fourth attempt at constitutional democracy, widely known in Nigerian political studies as the Fourth Republic. Drawing on critical readings across several humanistic social science disciplines, especially sociology and politics, Ebenezer Obadare provides compelling analysis of the exponential growth of Pentecostal movements during Nigeria’s Fourth Repu…
Religion and the Making of Nigeria
'In Religion and the Making of Nigeria', Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth centur…
Religion and the Making of Nigeria
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures along with the legacies of British colonial rule have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria
Moses E. Ochonu. Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria
Contrary to the famed British colonial system of indirect rule in which British administrators utilized traditional political authority to rule their local communities in the vast Northern Nigerian protectorate, Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria contends that British authorities used Hausa-Fulani Muslim rulers to control the non-Muslim peoples of the Middle Belt region of the protectorate. To leg…
Ethno-Regionalism and the Origins of Federalism in Nigeria
With a penetrating theoretical explanation of the structural configuration of power relations in Nigeria's troubled postcolonial nation-state and society, Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria critically focuses on the major themes that have shaped Nigerian politics—especially the rationale and logic of power—since independence. In many ways, this groundbreaking book is unique because it is among only a handful of books in Nigerian politica…
West African Migrations and Globalization: Introduction
This book, West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century is one of a two-part volume from papers presented at a symposium on transnational Africa and globalization organized by Olufemi Vaughan and Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome in November 2008 at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Drawing on the research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, the symposium explored how African migrati…
West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century
Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liber
Transnational Africa and Globalization
The dawn of neoliberal rationality in Africa in the 1980s coincided with a massive exodus of skilled Africans to the global North. Moving beyond the 'push and pull' framework that has dominated studie
The Yoruba in Transition: History, values, and modernity, edited by Toyin Falola and Ann Genova
This edited volume is a comprehensive collection of essays on the modern history of the Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria. Edited by the distinguished Africanist, Toyin Falola, and the promising young historian, Ann Genova, the book explores a wide range of themes that have shaped the transformation of Yoruba society since the imposition of colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Following a concise introduction, the book is broadly stru…
Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics
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, oba s (Yoruba monarchs), baale s (head chiefs), chiefs, Western-educated Christian elites and Muslim merchants embraced conte…
African Politics in Post-Imperial Times: The Essays of Richard L. Sklar
War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate Under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903 , by Risto Marjomaa
Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s
Assessing Grassroots Politics and Community Development in Nigeria
Journal Article ASSESSING GRASSROOTS POLITICS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA Get access OLUFEMI VAUGHAN OLUFEMI VAUGHAN Olufemi Vaughan is Assistant Professor of African Studies and History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is grateful to Toyin Falola, Julius Ihonvbere and Gavin Williams for useful suggestions and comments on an earlier version of this paper. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Communalism, legitimation and party politics at the grassroots: The case of the Yoruba
The Politics of Global Marginalization
This paper examines the impact of Western foreign policy on African states in the post-containment era. Section I provides a general overview of Western foreign policy in Africa towards the end of the Cold War. Section II explores the political and economic consequences of perestroika on African states. Section III discusses the political, military and economic implications of the demise of communism in Eastern Europe on both national and regiona…
Decolonisation and Legitimation in Nigeria
There is at present a great debate about whether the postcolonial states of Africa possess legitimacy; whether they have rooted themselves in civil society or operate merely as exploitative mechanisms, poised above society and only engaging it to expropriate. Any resolution of this debate needs to begin with an examination of the ideological origins of the postcolonial nation-state, a historical inquiry into its emergence from colonialism. These …
Nigeria's Second Republic, 1979-1983: The Politicization of Society
Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth-Century Africa
This book takes as its theme the ways in which governments legitimate their rule, both to themselves and to their subjects. Its introduction explores legitimacy and pre-colonial states, but the three
Chieftaincy politics and social relations in Nigeria
(1991). Chieftaincy politics and social relations in Nigeria. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 308-326
Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth-Century Africa
This book takes as its theme the ways in which governments legitimate their rule, both to themselves and to their subjects. Its introduction explores legitimacy and pre-colonial states, but the three
Assessing Grassroots Politics and Community Development in Nigeria
Journal Article ASSESSING GRASSROOTS POLITICS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA Get access OLUFEMI VAUGHAN OLUFEMI VAUGHAN Olufemi Vaughan is Assistant Professor of African Studies and History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is grateful to Toyin Falola, Julius Ihonvbere and Gavin Williams for useful suggestions and comments on an earlier version of this paper. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Terrorist attacks, land resource competition and violent farmer-herder conflicts
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, oba s (Yoruba monarchs), baale s (head chiefs), chiefs, Western-educated Christian elites and Muslim merchants embraced conte…
Explaining transhumance-related violence: Fulani Ethnic Militia in rural Nigeria
African Politics in Post-Imperial Times: The Essays of Richard L. Sklar
The Politics of Global Marginalization
This paper examines the impact of Western foreign policy on African states in the post-containment era. Section I provides a general overview of Western foreign policy in Africa towards the end of the Cold War. Section II explores the political and economic consequences of perestroika on African states. Section III discusses the political, military and economic implications of the demise of communism in Eastern Europe on both national and regiona…
Chieftaincy politics and social relations in Nigeria
(1991). Chieftaincy politics and social relations in Nigeria. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 308-326
Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria. By Ebenezer Obadare
Pentecostal Republic is the first book on Nigeria’s Pentecostal revolution during the country’s fourth attempt at constitutional democracy, widely known in Nigerian political studies as the Fourth Republic. Drawing on critical readings across several humanistic social science disciplines, especially sociology and politics, Ebenezer Obadare provides compelling analysis of the exponential growth of Pentecostal movements during Nigeria’s Fourth Repu…
Class, Ethnicity and Democracy in Nigeria; The failure of the First Republic
Journal Article Class, Ethnicity and Democracy in Nigeria; The failure of the First Republic Get access Larry Diamond, Class, Ethnicity and Democracy in Nigeria; The failure of the First Republic. Macmillan, London, 1988. xxi+376 pp. £35 hardback. ISBN 0 333 39435 6. OLUFEMI VAUGHAN OLUFEMI VAUGHAN St Antony's College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 3…
Chieftaincy politics and social relations in Nigeria
(1991). Chieftaincy politics and social relations in Nigeria. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 308-326
Decolonisation and Legitimation in Nigeria
There is at present a great debate about whether the postcolonial states of Africa possess legitimacy; whether they have rooted themselves in civil society or operate merely as exploitative mechanisms, poised above society and only engaging it to expropriate. Any resolution of this debate needs to begin with an examination of the ideological origins of the postcolonial nation-state, a historical inquiry into its emergence from colonialism. These …
Nigeria's Second Republic, 1979-1983: The Politicization of Society
Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth-Century Africa
This book takes as its theme the ways in which governments legitimate their rule, both to themselves and to their subjects. Its introduction explores legitimacy and pre-colonial states, but the three
Communalism, legitimation and party politics at the grassroots: The case of the Yoruba
The Politics of Global Marginalization
This paper examines the impact of Western foreign policy on African states in the post-containment era. Section I provides a general overview of Western foreign policy in Africa towards the end of the Cold War. Section II explores the political and economic consequences of perestroika on African states. Section III discusses the political, military and economic implications of the demise of communism in Eastern Europe on both national and regiona…
Assessing Grassroots Politics and Community Development in Nigeria
Journal Article ASSESSING GRASSROOTS POLITICS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA Get access OLUFEMI VAUGHAN OLUFEMI VAUGHAN Olufemi Vaughan is Assistant Professor of African Studies and History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is grateful to Toyin Falola, Julius Ihonvbere and Gavin Williams for useful suggestions and comments on an earlier version of this paper. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate Under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903 , by Risto Marjomaa
Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s
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, oba s (Yoruba monarchs), baale s (head chiefs), chiefs, Western-educated Christian elites and Muslim merchants embraced conte…
African Politics in Post-Imperial Times: The Essays of Richard L. Sklar
Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics
The Yoruba in Transition: History, values, and modernity, edited by Toyin Falola and Ann Genova
This edited volume is a comprehensive collection of essays on the modern history of the Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria. Edited by the distinguished Africanist, Toyin Falola, and the promising young historian, Ann Genova, the book explores a wide range of themes that have shaped the transformation of Yoruba society since the imposition of colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Following a concise introduction, the book is broadly stru…
Transnational Africa and Globalization
The dawn of neoliberal rationality in Africa in the 1980s coincided with a massive exodus of skilled Africans to the global North. Moving beyond the 'push and pull' framework that has dominated studie
West African Migrations and Globalization: Introduction
This book, West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century is one of a two-part volume from papers presented at a symposium on transnational Africa and globalization organized by Olufemi Vaughan and Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome in November 2008 at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Drawing on the research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, the symposium explored how African migrati…
West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century
Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liber
Ethno-Regionalism and the Origins of Federalism in Nigeria
With a penetrating theoretical explanation of the structural configuration of power relations in Nigeria's troubled postcolonial nation-state and society, Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria critically focuses on the major themes that have shaped Nigerian politics—especially the rationale and logic of power—since independence. In many ways, this groundbreaking book is unique because it is among only a handful of books in Nigerian politica…
Moses E. Ochonu. Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria
Contrary to the famed British colonial system of indirect rule in which British administrators utilized traditional political authority to rule their local communities in the vast Northern Nigerian protectorate, Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria contends that British authorities used Hausa-Fulani Muslim rulers to control the non-Muslim peoples of the Middle Belt region of the protectorate. To leg…
Religion and the Making of Nigeria
'In Religion and the Making of Nigeria', Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth centur…
Religion and the Making of Nigeria
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures along with the legacies of British colonial rule have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria
Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria. By Ebenezer Obadare
Pentecostal Republic is the first book on Nigeria’s Pentecostal revolution during the country’s fourth attempt at constitutional democracy, widely known in Nigerian political studies as the Fourth Republic. Drawing on critical readings across several humanistic social science disciplines, especially sociology and politics, Ebenezer Obadare provides compelling analysis of the exponential growth of Pentecostal movements during Nigeria’s Fourth Repu…
Understanding Modern Nigeria: Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development, written by Toyin Falola
Toyin Falola, 2021. Understanding Modern Nigeria: Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. viii–xviii; 672 pp.; price not stated. ISBN: 9781108947633In Understanding Modern Nigeria: Ethnicity, Democracy, and Development, Toyin Falola, foremost chronicler of Nigerian historical, political, and cultural studies has given us another authoritative book that critically explores the serious challenges confrontin…
Explaining transhumance-related violence: Fulani Ethnic Militia in rural Nigeria
Terrorist attacks, land resource competition and violent farmer-herder conflicts
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