Nigerian Women in Historical Perspective
| Author | : Bolanle Awe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
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The Female King of Colonial Nigeria
| Author | : Nwando Achebe |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2011-02-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0253222486 |
While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.
The Women's War of 1929
| Author | : Marc Matera |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2011-10-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0230356060 |
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.
Gender and Development in Nigeria
| Author | : Funmi Soetan |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2018-08-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1498564763 |
In this edited volume, Nigerian scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the relationship between gender and Nigeria’s pathways of development in the last 100 years of its nationhood. This analysis is set against the background of unequal power dynamics between women and men, and specifically the ways in which social, cultural, political, and economic construction of gender has influenced Nigeria’s course of development through her colonial and post-colonial history. The influence of the nature of economic governance, policy, and institutional frameworks, the nature of resource availability and (re)distribution between women and men in terms of goods and services, knowledge and skills, policies and budgets, and the outcomes and impacts for women and men are seen in terms of women’s economic empowerment, equal participation and development benefits. This rich collection of empirical works therefore provides not just the rhetoric but the evidence to indict gender power relations in Nigeria, especially at the institutional level. This volume unpacks and explores this recurrent problem with a the goal of identifying new pathways for gender relations.
Women's History in Global Perspective
| Author | : Bonnie G. Smith |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780252029318 |
The American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians commissioned some of the pioneering figures in women's history to prepare essays in their respective areas of expertise. This volume, the first in a series of three, collects their efforts. Women's History in Global Perspective, Volume 1 addresses the comparative themes that the editors and contributors see as central to understanding women's history around the world. Later volumes will be concerned with issues that have shaped the history of women in particular regions. The authors of these essays, including Margaret Strobel, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Mrinalini Sinha, provide general overviews of the theory and practice of women's and gender history and analyze family history, nationalism, and work. The collection is rounded out by essays on religion, race, ethnicity, and the different varieties of feminism. Incorporating essays from top scholars ranging over an abundance of regions, dates, and methodologies, the three volumes of Women's History in Global Perspective constitute an invaluable resource for anyone interested in a comprehensive overview on the latest in feminist scholarship.
A History of Nigeria
| Author | : Toyin Falola |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2008-04-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139472038 |
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
Re-Inventing Africa
| Author | : Ifi Amadiume |
| Publisher | : Zed Books |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1997-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781856495349 |
This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism
| Author | : Ifi Amadiume |
| Publisher | : Zed Books |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781856498067 |
Using the idea of a collectivist, humanist culture of traditional African matriarchal heritage, Ifi Amadiume contrasts daughters of the Goddess to a corrupt and oppressive culture of imperialism that she argues is the heritage of contemporary elite-led women's organizations. She examines the activities of such organizations in Nigeria, making comparisons with those in Britain and South Africa as well as international movements; looking at the 1995 Beijing International Women's Conferences, she explores internationalism as an instrument of class reproduction. The author provides a detailed account of the structures and workings of local government in Nigeria and Britain as she raises theoretical and policy issues about civic groups, civil society and the nature of the late twentieth century state. Finally, Professor Amadiume draws lessons from her own experiences working in local government to suggest measures for true gender equity and the democratisation of politics in our increasingly multicultural and multiethnic societies. This book asks some hard questions of contemporary feminist movements and provides the most detailed account available of Nigerian women's politics.
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
| Author | : Emmanuel Akyeampong |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2014-08-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1139992694 |
This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the chapters take a comparative perspective, placing Africa's developments aside other global patterns. The readership for this book spans from the informed lay reader with an interest in Africa, academics and undergraduate and graduate students, policy makers, and those in the development world.
The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria
| Author | : Saheed Aderinto |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2013-02-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1443847127 |
This festschrift in honor of Professor Ayodeji Olukoju, one of Nigeria’s brightest historians, brings together scholarship representative of the third wave of historical scholarship on Nigeria. Olukoju, a pioneering historian of Nigerian maritime history, also produced significant revisionist scholarship in the areas of economic, urban, and infrastructure history. The contributions in this volume epitomize the groundbreaking directions of his career; they are marked by a search for new explanations and venture into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. Aside from its critical engagement of Olukoju’s impressive scholarship, this volume presents chapters on such underresearched aspects of Nigerian history as sexuality, children and youth, crime, memory, and HIV/AIDS. It offers historical explanations of a host of development challenges confronting Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, and resilient reinterpretations of the place of history in nation building. The contributors, pioneering experts in their various subfields, bring their research and teaching experience to the fore and deploy neglected data as they unfold topics that shed light on Nigeria, its peoples, and cultures. They show that history, both as a daily practice and as an academic endeavor, remains vital as Africans seek solutions to the continent’s critical development challenges.
