Nigerian chiefs : traditional power in modern politics, 1890s-1990s
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Nigerian chiefs : traditional power in modern politics, 1890s-1990s
（Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, v. 7）
University of Rochester Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-278) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9781580460408
Description
This book analyzes how indigenous political power structures in Nigeria survived both the constricting forces of colonialism and the modernization programs of postcolonial regimes. With twenty detailed case studies on colonial andpostcolonial Nigerian history, the complex interactions between chieftaincy structures and the rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic conditions of the twentieth century become evident. Drawing on the interactions between the state and chieftaincy, this study goes beyond earlier Africanist scholarship that attributes the resilience of these indigenous structures to their enduring normative and utilitarian qualities. Linked to externally-derived forces, and legitimated by neotraditional themes, chieftaincy structures were distorted by the indirect rule system, transformed by competing communal claims, and legitimated a dominant ethno-regional power configuration.
Olufemi Vaughan is Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Table of Contents
- Colonial distortions - indirect rule in Oyo Province
- chieftaincy and political reforms in late colonialism
- the politics of decolonization
- chieftaincy and the crisis of regionalism
- military rule - chieftaincy, regionalism, and grassroots politics
- military reforms - the rationalization of chieftaincy structures
- the politicians' interregnum
- the return of military rule.
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softcover ISBN 9781580462495
Description
An analysis of how traditional power structures in Nigeria have survived the forces of colonialism and the modernization processes of postcolonial regimes.
This book analyzes how indigenous political power structures in Nigeria survived both the constricting forces of colonialism and the modernization programs of postcolonial regimes. With twenty detailed case studies on colonial andpostcolonial Nigerian history, the complex interactions between chieftaincy structures and the rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic conditions of the twentieth century become evident. Drawing on the interactions between the state and chieftaincy, this study goes beyond earlier Africanist scholarship that attributes the resilience of these indigenous structures to their enduring normative and utilitarian qualities. Linked to externally-derived forces, and legitimated by neotraditional themes, chieftaincy structures were distorted by the indirect rule system, transformed by competing communal claims, and legitimated a dominant ethno-regional power configuration.
Olufemi Vaughan is Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Winner of the 2001 Cecil B. Currey Book-length Award from the Association ofThird World Studies.
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