By Ann Genova, Toyin Falola
ISBN-10: 1580462197
ISBN-13: 9781580462198
ISBN-10: 1580466621
ISBN-13: 9781580466622
Yor?b? identification and gear Politics covers the main matters on Yor?b? background and politics, therefore supplying an exceptional figuring out of 1 of the preferred ethnic teams in Africa. With a cautious mixture of assets and techniques, narratives at the previous and current, the publication manages to provide a protracted historical past because the backdrop to advanced modern politics. participants: Tunde M. Akinwumi, Olufunke A. Adeboye, R. T. Akinyele, Aribidesi Usman, Tunde Oduwobi, Olufemi Vaughan, Abolade Adeniji, Jean-Luc Martineau, Ann O'Hear, Rasheed Olaniyi, Charles Temitope Adeyanju, Julius O. Adekunle, Funso Afolayan, Olayiwola Abegunrin. Toyin Falola is the Francis Nalle Higgenbothom Centennial Professor of heritage and Distinuished educating on the collage of Texas at Austin. BR> Ann Genova is a Ph.D. candidate on the college of Texas at Austin.
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To the south of Ifè. gbá, Egbado, and Awori, who took advantage of their proximity to the sea to develop trade. 20 As the use of a standard Yorùbá language became widespread, it provided an opportunity to talk about “Yorùbá culture,” homogenizing many aspects of it. We see some of such elements in this book (as in the chapters on chiefs and dress). The economy revolved around agriculture; trade (local and regional) was well developed. Inferior technology did not retard the growth of culture, which was highly urbanized and sophisticated.
55. , 13. 56. , West African Chiefs, ix. 57. o. layan, Yoruba Sacred Kingship: A Power Like That of the Gods (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1996). 58. Ibid. 59. Vaughan, Nigerian Chiefs, 14. 60. Ibid. 61. Bello, Foremost Traditional Rulers, 2. 62. , 5. 63. Vaughan, Nigerian Chiefs, 15. 26 Introduction 64. Mahood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), 39. 65. , 22. 66. E. A. Ayandele, “Ijebuland 1800–1891: Era of Splendid Isolation,” in Studies in Yoruba History and Culture, 105.
A. Ayandele, “Ijebuland 1800–1891: Era of Splendid Isolation,” in Studies in Yoruba History and Culture, 105. 67. C. O. , ed. Olasope O. Oyelaran, and others. : O . wo. University, 1988), 666. 68. , 673. 69. , 669. 70. Richard L. Sklar, “Contradictions in the Nigerian Political System,” in African Politics in Postimperial Times: The Essays of Richard L. Sklar, ed. Toyin Falola (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002), 274–75. 71. Bello, Foremost Traditional Rulers, 12. 72. Philip Zachernuk, “The Lagos Intelligentsia and the Idea of Progress, ca.
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