Moses E Ochonu
Biographic Data
| ID | 989848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moses E Ochonu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moses E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ochonu |
| SIGNATURE | OCHONU M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Department of History Vanderbilt University P.M.B 351802 2301, Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37235-1802 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Interrogating the postcolonial Nigerian university
Nigerian public universities stand at a crossroads.They are confronted by a multidimensional crisis that challenges their self-curated image as bastions of learning, thought and instrumental research.The universities are also increasingly imbricated in global epistemological politics and trends.These entwinements both weaken them and offer them new ways of imagining their missions, and new imperatives for reinventing themselves as distinctly Afri…
South African Afrophobia in local and continental contexts
South Africa is the intellectual epicentre of the ideology of African renaissance and of the growing scholarly attention to decoloniality as an epistemological and aesthetic agenda of decolonisation. Paradoxically, the country is also a xenophobic crime scene: the continental state associated with endemic Afrophobic violence. This is a contradiction with both contemporary and historical significance. Positing this framing of a contradictory impul…
Looking for Race
Africans and the Colonial Economy
This chapter maps the general economic policy trajectories of colonial regimes as well as the active agency of Africans in engaging with these policies. Africans tried to cope and thrive in an economy calibrated to serve metropolitan interests. How did Africans, as individuals and groups, react to the strictures and unintended opportunities of colonial policies on land, agriculture, and labor? The chapter demonstrates the ways in which farmers, l…
The Wangara Trading Network in Precolonial West Africa
The Wangara Trading Network in Precolonial West Africa
This study focuses on the extensive business and trading empire that Mande-speaking merchants, trade brokers, and financiers built and ran across West Africa between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Wangara feature prominently in the economic and mercantile history of West Africa because they pioneered intra-regional long distance trading and investments. They faced and overcame obstacles to trade and investments in diverse cultural a…
Elusive History
Inspired by my experiences in archives and research fields in Northern Nigeria, this essay analyzes four overlapping phenomena: archival fragmentation, the politicization of data and research transactions, the proliferation of memoirs and other texts of self-representation, and the question of sensing the African past beyond the recognized oral, written, and ethnographic corpus. At once familiar and novel, these trends present both problems and p…
Making Headway
Colonial Meltdown
Colonial Meltdown
Elusive History
Inspired by my experiences in archives and research fields in Northern Nigeria, this essay analyzes four overlapping phenomena: archival fragmentation, the politicization of data and research transactions, the proliferation of memoirs and other texts of self-representation, and the question of sensing the African past beyond the recognized oral, written, and ethnographic corpus. At once familiar and novel, these trends present both problems and p…
South African Afrophobia in local and continental contexts
South Africa is the intellectual epicentre of the ideology of African renaissance and of the growing scholarly attention to decoloniality as an epistemological and aesthetic agenda of decolonisation. Paradoxically, the country is also a xenophobic crime scene: the continental state associated with endemic Afrophobic violence. This is a contradiction with both contemporary and historical significance. Positing this framing of a contradictory impul…
Colonial Meltdown
Making Headway
The Wangara Trading Network in Precolonial West Africa
The Wangara Trading Network in Precolonial West Africa
This study focuses on the extensive business and trading empire that Mande-speaking merchants, trade brokers, and financiers built and ran across West Africa between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Wangara feature prominently in the economic and mercantile history of West Africa because they pioneered intra-regional long distance trading and investments. They faced and overcame obstacles to trade and investments in diverse cultural a…
Elusive History
Inspired by my experiences in archives and research fields in Northern Nigeria, this essay analyzes four overlapping phenomena: archival fragmentation, the politicization of data and research transactions, the proliferation of memoirs and other texts of self-representation, and the question of sensing the African past beyond the recognized oral, written, and ethnographic corpus. At once familiar and novel, these trends present both problems and p…
Africans and the Colonial Economy
This chapter maps the general economic policy trajectories of colonial regimes as well as the active agency of Africans in engaging with these policies. Africans tried to cope and thrive in an economy calibrated to serve metropolitan interests. How did Africans, as individuals and groups, react to the strictures and unintended opportunities of colonial policies on land, agriculture, and labor? The chapter demonstrates the ways in which farmers, l…
Looking for Race
South African Afrophobia in local and continental contexts
South Africa is the intellectual epicentre of the ideology of African renaissance and of the growing scholarly attention to decoloniality as an epistemological and aesthetic agenda of decolonisation. Paradoxically, the country is also a xenophobic crime scene: the continental state associated with endemic Afrophobic violence. This is a contradiction with both contemporary and historical significance. Positing this framing of a contradictory impul…
Interrogating the postcolonial Nigerian university
Nigerian public universities stand at a crossroads.They are confronted by a multidimensional crisis that challenges their self-curated image as bastions of learning, thought and instrumental research.The universities are also increasingly imbricated in global epistemological politics and trends.These entwinements both weaken them and offer them new ways of imagining their missions, and new imperatives for reinventing themselves as distinctly Afri…
History (7 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works)