Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria

Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria

Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency

Adebanwi, Wale (University of California, Davis)

Cambridge University Press

04/2016

318

Mole

Inglês

9781107696662

15 a 20 dias

Yoruba 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 Yoruba.
Introduction; Part I: 1. Elite agency: the making of the modern progenitor; 2. The secular ancestor: the political life of a dead leader; Part II: 3. The politics of heritage: (re)constitution, conservation and corporateness in Yoruba politics; 4. The mantle of Awo: the politics of succession; 5. Reconciliation and retrenchment; 6. How (not) to be a proper Yoruba; 7. Seizing the heritage: playing proper Yoruba in an age of uncertainty; Conclusion: corporate agency and ethnic politics.
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