Wale Adebanwi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 87174 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wale Adebanwi |
| PRENOMES | Wale |
| SOBRENOME | Adebanwi |
| ASSINATURA | ADEBANWI W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9791-3436 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 184 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Topographies of African Spirituality
This book explores African spirituality inside and outside of religion, investigating African traditions and perceptions in the study of spirituality across Africa and the African diaspora. It provides an interdisciplinary reflection on key issues in the field and sheds light on everyday experiences. In particular, the volume celebrates the work and mentorship of Professor Jacob K. Olupona, a leading figure in the study of African spiritualities,…
Canvassing the generative
One of Tejumola Olaniyan's most significant contributions to the analysis of African social formation is his emphasis on approaching the African state as a fundamental "generative canvas" for cultural (re)production. This article engages his thesis in exploring how the state is not only a cultural practice and a site of culture but also a phenomenon that is generative of culture, particularly when culture is approached as central to the conceptio…
Everyday Life in the Underbelly of Global Capital(ism)
In their latest stimulating books, Neferti X. M. Tadiar and AbdouMaliq Simone provide new and searing pathways for (re)engaging with the core questions of (everyday) life in the neoliberal moment, while also departing from the conventional ways in which the questions have been posed. Both authors expand the emergent tradition of reflections on the question of life in the context of the dominant, global political economy—what can be described as t…
Pellow, Deborah
Rethinking Achille Mbembe’s ‘Provisional notes on the postcolony
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The carnality of power
In 'Provisional notes on the postcolony', Achille Mbembe argues that obscenity and grotesquery are essential characteristics of postcolonial regimes of domination and subordination. This article attempts to extend this insight for the study of contemporary African social formations. Drawing on examples from Central, Southern and West Africa, the article reflects on Mbembe's particular emphasis on thecarnality of power, especially power's ability …
Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa
Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability. The book enters conversations about political subjectivi…
Burying 'Zik of Africa
This article uses the death and burial of one of the most important political leaders in twentieth-century Africa, and Nigeria's first and only ceremonial president, Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Nnamdi Azikiwe, to reflect on how and why the deaths and burials of significant persons in Africa represent occasions for the (re)production and management of cultural crises. It argues that the extant literature on the death of consequential persons in Africa either u…
The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa
What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach …
Contesting multiculturalism
Is multiculturalism the best way to deal with diversity in an emerging but divided (African) nation-state? Is multiculturalism antithetical to nation-building and mutual recognition of equal value among different ethnic-nationalities within African polities? These were some of the most fundamental questions that Nigeria’s ethno-regional political parties and their leaders confronted in the decolonisation period. Analysing different ethno-regional…
Portrait
Sub-Saharan Africa is frequently, but unjustly, seen as the periphery of the Muslim world, in terms of both geography and religious influence.By contrast, North Africa is considered to be directly linked to the alleged center of the Muslim world, that is, the Arab Middle East.In fact, Islam has had a presence in sub-Saharan Africa since the earliest days of its history.This chapter tries to redress the periphery bias in the analysis of African Mu…
Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa
Africa's 'Two Publics
In this article, I explore a possible 'conversation' between a leading African political sociologist, Peter P. Ekeh, in his theory of 'two publics', and the late French philosopher, historian and social theorist, Michel Foucault, in his theory of governmentality. I examine the 'lingering effects of colonialism' and point to how Ekeh's insight and its usefulness for examining the politico-cultural consequences of colonialism in terms of the conduc…
Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa
This volume advances the discussions of leadership in Africa's specific history, culture, economy, and politics. The book promotes an understanding of leadership and its paradoxes and illuminates the
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Africa
Jean and John Comaroff enthusiastically claim that Africa constitutes a rich site 'of new knowledges and ways of knowing-and-being ... that have the capacity to inform and transform theory in the north, to subvert its universalisms in order to rewrite them in a different, less provincial register' (Comaroff and Comaroff 2011). What role, then, can the African university - which, as described by Jeremiah Arowosegbe, is in a lamentable state - play…
Commemorating and forgetting
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy. Wale Adebanwi demonstrates how the corporate agency of the elite transformed the modern history and politics of one of Africa's largest ethnic groups, the Yorùbá. The argument is organized around the ideas and cultural representations of Ọbáfemi Awólowo, the central signifier of modern Yorùb…
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
Religion and Indigenous Hermeneutics
Jacob Olupona's City of 201 Gods critically engages the question of interpretation and understanding in the analysis of specific African lifeworlds (re)defined by religious culture. Olupona's interpretation invites further interpretation of how emergent symbolic forms in a context of plural religious practices provoke both consensus and dissensus with respect to secularist practices
The writer as social thinker
Social theory in, and social theorising about, Africa has largely ignored African literature. Yet, the works of African writers constitute potential sources for the analysis of social thought and for constructing social theory in the continent. Indeed, African writers offer the kinds of abstractions, comparisons, frameworks and critical reflections on the African lifeworld – and the place of the African in the global context in the longue durée –…
Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria
Richard Joseph's seminal 1987 book Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria represented a watershed moment in the understanding of the political dynamics of Nigeria. This groundbreaking collection
A Nation Betrayed
This incredibly illuminating book unveils a critical part of the fatal constitutional and structural flaws inscribed by the British into the process of constructing the independent federation of Nigeria in the twilight years of their empire. While much has been written about what has come to be described as the ‘minority question’ in Nigeria, no other work comes close to A Nation Betrayed in providing an elaborate evidential basis and well-crafte…
Glocal naming and shaming
Journal Article Glocal naming and shaming: Toponymic (inter) national relations on Lagos and New York's streets Get access Wale Adebanwi Wale Adebanwi [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 111, Issue 445, October 2012, Pages 640–661, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ads055 Published: 16 August 2012
The Radical Press and Security Agencies in Nigeria
The dominant trend in the literature on civil society in Africa, particularly in the context of undemocratic regimes, assumes that civil society activists (including progressive, radical, or guerrilla journalists) are committed only to counteracting the preeminence of a repressive state. Within such a paradigm, evidence of collaborations between agents of the state and elements within civil society—particularly in the interest of advancing politi…
The abrogation of the electorate
This paper captures an emerging African phenomenon in which the form of democracy is brazenly used to invalidate its very substance. Drawing on particulars from Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria, we articulate the re-ascendance and re-invigoration of anti-democratic forces across Africa, and weigh up the challenge that violent erasure of the electoral sovereignty of citizens constitutes to democratic theory and practice
Terror, territoriality and the struggle for indigeneity and citizenship in northern Nigeria
The struggle of the minority ethnic groups against the majority Hausa-Fulani ethnic-amalgam in the north of Nigeria has persisted. As a result of the twentieth-century jihad and politico-cultural and economic factors, Fulani (Muslims) are found in many parts of the minority areas of the geographical north. Many of the minority ethnic groups often claim to be ‘indigenous’ to the areas and regard the Fulani – and Hausa – as ‘settlers’. The struggle…
The carpenter's revolt
This paper examines the cultural repertoires of the youthful, 'militant' faction of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) in Nigeria, pointing to ways in which violence and ritual can be interpreted both as an instrumentally rational strategy of power struggle and as a form of symbolic action with cultural meanings. The OPC case strongly challenges the bifurcation of tradition and modernity, given the way the group appropriate culture in negotiating …
Ethno-nationalist claims in southern Nigeria
There are several competing explanations for the rise in ethnic nationalisms in Nigeria, but there is an agreement that identity politics and conflicts tend to incubate and thrive best in underdeveloped settings. To this can be added the crises produced by prolonged military rule, during which the intensity of contestations for power translated the quest for ethnic ascendancy into the rule rather than the exception. This essay provides the contex…
When corruption fights back
This essay analyses the construction of the anti-corruption war under the civilian government in Nigeria between 1999 and 2008. We consolidate existing insights in the literature in three key ways. First, we show that in democratising contexts like Nigeria, the gravest threats to anti-corruption campaigns often emanate from a combination of intra-elite rancour and political intrigue. Second, we provide an explanation of what happens when, literal…
Glocal naming and shaming
Journal Article Glocal naming and shaming: Toponymic (inter) national relations on Lagos and New York's streets Get access Wale Adebanwi Wale Adebanwi [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 111, Issue 445, October 2012, Pages 640–661, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ads055 Published: 16 August 2012
The abrogation of the electorate
This paper captures an emerging African phenomenon in which the form of democracy is brazenly used to invalidate its very substance. Drawing on particulars from Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria, we articulate the re-ascendance and re-invigoration of anti-democratic forces across Africa, and weigh up the challenge that violent erasure of the electoral sovereignty of citizens constitutes to democratic theory and practice
The cult of Awo
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 arecentancestor, 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 …
The City, Hegemony and Ethno-Spatial Politics
The centrality and assumed primacy of Lagos, Nigeria, explained why it was important in the (ethnic) hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of colonial Nigeria, particularly in the context of how this politics was geared toward the appropriation of space—within that particular socio-political formation, over-determined by ethnicity—as explicated in the newspaper press of the period. Two rival newspapers—West African Pilot and Daily Service—are …
Africa's 'Two Publics
In this article, I explore a possible 'conversation' between a leading African political sociologist, Peter P. Ekeh, in his theory of 'two publics', and the late French philosopher, historian and social theorist, Michel Foucault, in his theory of governmentality. I examine the 'lingering effects of colonialism' and point to how Ekeh's insight and its usefulness for examining the politico-cultural consequences of colonialism in terms of the conduc…
The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa
What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach …
Transnational Resource Flow and the Paradoxes of Belonging
The rise in the volume of known global foreign worker remittances to countries of origin has sparked considerable academic and policy interest. Much attention has been paid to the assumed ‘development’ potential of these financial remittances, an approach which encapsulates the tendency to envisage the consequences of remittance flows in overwhelmingly economic terms. This article takes issue with such an approach, arguing for a refocusing of the…
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 co…
The writer as social thinker
Social theory in, and social theorising about, Africa has largely ignored African literature. Yet, the works of African writers constitute potential sources for the analysis of social thought and for constructing social theory in the continent. Indeed, African writers offer the kinds of abstractions, comparisons, frameworks and critical reflections on the African lifeworld – and the place of the African in the global context in the longue durée –…
The Clergy, Culture, and Political Conflicts in Nigeria
This article explores contemporary manifestations of the politicization of culture by the Christian clergy in the determination and resolution of political conflicts in Nigeria in general and Yonibaland in particular-against die backdrop of what has been called "the civilizational hegemony of Christianity." The article approaches religion and the practices it enables as part of a cultural system through which we can capture the specific ways in w…
Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa
This volume advances the discussions of leadership in Africa's specific history, culture, economy, and politics. The book promotes an understanding of leadership and its paradoxes and illuminates the
Territoriality and the Discourse of Ethnic Groups’ Clashes
Conflictual relations at the level of political and civil society are usually replicated, represented and re-presented in the media. Where such relations concern territoriality, the media through a discursive strategy, re-fold space into—or re-bind space with—power, producing a territoriality, which not only reflects the political economy of ethno-spatial struggles, but also amplifies these struggles. This essay focuses on how the symbolic manife…
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Africa
Jean and John Comaroff enthusiastically claim that Africa constitutes a rich site 'of new knowledges and ways of knowing-and-being ... that have the capacity to inform and transform theory in the north, to subvert its universalisms in order to rewrite them in a different, less provincial register' (Comaroff and Comaroff 2011). What role, then, can the African university - which, as described by Jeremiah Arowosegbe, is in a lamentable state - play…
The carnality of power
In 'Provisional notes on the postcolony', Achille Mbembe argues that obscenity and grotesquery are essential characteristics of postcolonial regimes of domination and subordination. This article attempts to extend this insight for the study of contemporary African social formations. Drawing on examples from Central, Southern and West Africa, the article reflects on Mbembe's particular emphasis on thecarnality of power, especially power's ability …
Burying 'Zik of Africa
This article uses the death and burial of one of the most important political leaders in twentieth-century Africa, and Nigeria's first and only ceremonial president, Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Nnamdi Azikiwe, to reflect on how and why the deaths and burials of significant persons in Africa represent occasions for the (re)production and management of cultural crises. It argues that the extant literature on the death of consequential persons in Africa either u…
Introducing Nigeria at fifty
Nigeria, Africa's most populous democracy, celebrates her 50th year as an independent nation in October 2010. As the cliché states, ‘As Nigeria goes, so goes Africa’. This volume frames the socio-historical and political trajectory of Nigeria while examining the many dimensions of the critical choices that she has made as an independent nation. How does the social composition of interest and power illuminate the actualities and narratives of the …
Hegemony and Spatial Politics
Hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics are inherent in most human groupings, particularly where such politics are geared toward the appropriation of space. Against this backdrop, the paper attempts to explain how an elite and counter-elite dichotomy in a social formation arose in the struggle for power. Contentious micro-politics in Lagos, the capital city in colonial Nigeria, with the attendant pull and push of elite bargaining for power and p…
Canvassing the generative
One of Tejumola Olaniyan's most significant contributions to the analysis of African social formation is his emphasis on approaching the African state as a fundamental "generative canvas" for cultural (re)production. This article engages his thesis in exploring how the state is not only a cultural practice and a site of culture but also a phenomenon that is generative of culture, particularly when culture is approached as central to the conceptio…
Contesting multiculturalism
Is multiculturalism the best way to deal with diversity in an emerging but divided (African) nation-state? Is multiculturalism antithetical to nation-building and mutual recognition of equal value among different ethnic-nationalities within African polities? These were some of the most fundamental questions that Nigeria’s ethno-regional political parties and their leaders confronted in the decolonisation period. Analysing different ethno-regional…
The Cultural Agency of Elites
The mystique of eliteness is a quality that is cultivated or constructed overtime. Here, I examine agency- a culturally-specific, consolidated stream of composite actions and interactions that are geared towards specific social endeavours, and structure -representing conventions and social parameters through which agency and social practices are performed and become performative, by tracing the historical-political context in which Chief Obáfémi …
Contesting exclusion
The Press and the Politics of Marginal Voices
Given its place in the vortex of power relations in Nigeria, the Nigerian press has nurtured and/or subverted, promoted and/or combated the legitimacy of hegemonic power-blocs and state in their relationship with minority (marginal) ethnic groups. The role of the press in this context has become more crucial since the struggle of the minority ethnic groups gained a new impetus in the 1980s and 1990s Nigeria, linked as it was to a global resurgenc…
The City, Hegemony and Ethno-Spatial Politics
The centrality and assumed primacy of Lagos, Nigeria, explained why it was important in the (ethnic) hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics of colonial Nigeria, particularly in the context of how this politics was geared toward the appropriation of space—within that particular socio-political formation, over-determined by ethnicity—as explicated in the newspaper press of the period. Two rival newspapers—West African Pilot and Daily Service—are …
Hegemony and Spatial Politics
Hegemonic and counter-hegemonic politics are inherent in most human groupings, particularly where such politics are geared toward the appropriation of space. Against this backdrop, the paper attempts to explain how an elite and counter-elite dichotomy in a social formation arose in the struggle for power. Contentious micro-politics in Lagos, the capital city in colonial Nigeria, with the attendant pull and push of elite bargaining for power and p…
The carpenter's revolt
This paper examines the cultural repertoires of the youthful, 'militant' faction of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) in Nigeria, pointing to ways in which violence and ritual can be interpreted both as an instrumentally rational strategy of power struggle and as a form of symbolic action with cultural meanings. The OPC case strongly challenges the bifurcation of tradition and modernity, given the way the group appropriate culture in negotiating …
Territoriality and the Discourse of Ethnic Groups’ Clashes
Conflictual relations at the level of political and civil society are usually replicated, represented and re-presented in the media. Where such relations concern territoriality, the media through a discursive strategy, re-fold space into—or re-bind space with—power, producing a territoriality, which not only reflects the political economy of ethno-spatial struggles, but also amplifies these struggles. This essay focuses on how the symbolic manife…
Contesting exclusion
Ethno-nationalist claims in southern Nigeria
There are several competing explanations for the rise in ethnic nationalisms in Nigeria, but there is an agreement that identity politics and conflicts tend to incubate and thrive best in underdeveloped settings. To this can be added the crises produced by prolonged military rule, during which the intensity of contestations for power translated the quest for ethnic ascendancy into the rule rather than the exception. This essay provides the contex…
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 co…
The cult of Awo
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 arecentancestor, 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 …
Transnational Resource Flow and the Paradoxes of Belonging
The rise in the volume of known global foreign worker remittances to countries of origin has sparked considerable academic and policy interest. Much attention has been paid to the assumed ‘development’ potential of these financial remittances, an approach which encapsulates the tendency to envisage the consequences of remittance flows in overwhelmingly economic terms. This article takes issue with such an approach, arguing for a refocusing of the…
Terror, territoriality and the struggle for indigeneity and citizenship in northern Nigeria
The struggle of the minority ethnic groups against the majority Hausa-Fulani ethnic-amalgam in the north of Nigeria has persisted. As a result of the twentieth-century jihad and politico-cultural and economic factors, Fulani (Muslims) are found in many parts of the minority areas of the geographical north. Many of the minority ethnic groups often claim to be ‘indigenous’ to the areas and regard the Fulani – and Hausa – as ‘settlers’. The struggle…
The Cultural Agency of Elites
The mystique of eliteness is a quality that is cultivated or constructed overtime. Here, I examine agency- a culturally-specific, consolidated stream of composite actions and interactions that are geared towards specific social endeavours, and structure -representing conventions and social parameters through which agency and social practices are performed and become performative, by tracing the historical-political context in which Chief Obáfémi …
The Visa God
This chapter emphasizes an equally important but so far largely undocumented dimension of religious transnationalism - the role that religion plays in transnational migration before actual migration. It analyzes an important slice of sociological reality in contemporary Nigeria, a country at the hub of the current wave of emigration of young people (highly skilled and otherwise) from sub- Saharan Africa. The chapter draws on secondary data from b…
Encountering the Nigerian State
Introduction
In his excellent introduction to the volume Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship Dialogues and Perceptions, which he coedited with Helmut Reifeld, Rajeev Bhargava underlined the need to query what analytical purchase the state and other fundamental political and sociological concepts may have (for a non-Western society) by posing the following critical questions: How did they evolve in European societies? Does our [i.e., Indian] society f…
Introducing Nigeria at fifty
Nigeria, Africa's most populous democracy, celebrates her 50th year as an independent nation in October 2010. As the cliché states, ‘As Nigeria goes, so goes Africa’. This volume frames the socio-historical and political trajectory of Nigeria while examining the many dimensions of the critical choices that she has made as an independent nation. How does the social composition of interest and power illuminate the actualities and narratives of the …
The Clergy, Culture, and Political Conflicts in Nigeria
This article explores contemporary manifestations of the politicization of culture by the Christian clergy in the determination and resolution of political conflicts in Nigeria in general and Yonibaland in particular-against die backdrop of what has been called "the civilizational hegemony of Christianity." The article approaches religion and the practices it enables as part of a cultural system through which we can capture the specific ways in w…
The Radical Press and Security Agencies in Nigeria
The dominant trend in the literature on civil society in Africa, particularly in the context of undemocratic regimes, assumes that civil society activists (including progressive, radical, or guerrilla journalists) are committed only to counteracting the preeminence of a repressive state. Within such a paradigm, evidence of collaborations between agents of the state and elements within civil society—particularly in the interest of advancing politi…
The abrogation of the electorate
This paper captures an emerging African phenomenon in which the form of democracy is brazenly used to invalidate its very substance. Drawing on particulars from Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria, we articulate the re-ascendance and re-invigoration of anti-democratic forces across Africa, and weigh up the challenge that violent erasure of the electoral sovereignty of citizens constitutes to democratic theory and practice
When corruption fights back
This essay analyses the construction of the anti-corruption war under the civilian government in Nigeria between 1999 and 2008. We consolidate existing insights in the literature in three key ways. First, we show that in democratising contexts like Nigeria, the gravest threats to anti-corruption campaigns often emanate from a combination of intra-elite rancour and political intrigue. Second, we provide an explanation of what happens when, literal…
A Nation Betrayed
This incredibly illuminating book unveils a critical part of the fatal constitutional and structural flaws inscribed by the British into the process of constructing the independent federation of Nigeria in the twilight years of their empire. While much has been written about what has come to be described as the ‘minority question’ in Nigeria, no other work comes close to A Nation Betrayed in providing an elaborate evidential basis and well-crafte…
Glocal naming and shaming
Journal Article Glocal naming and shaming: Toponymic (inter) national relations on Lagos and New York's streets Get access Wale Adebanwi Wale Adebanwi [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 111, Issue 445, October 2012, Pages 640–661, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ads055 Published: 16 August 2012
Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria
Richard Joseph's seminal 1987 book Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria represented a watershed moment in the understanding of the political dynamics of Nigeria. This groundbreaking collection
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy. Wale Adebanwi demonstrates how the corporate agency of the elite transformed the modern history and politics of one of Africa's largest ethnic groups, the Yorùbá. The argument is organized around the ideas and cultural representations of Ọbáfemi Awólowo, the central signifier of modern Yorùb…
Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
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