The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History

by Falola, Toyin; Heaton, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780190050092
• ISBN10: 0190050098
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-02-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa's most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious communities, economic partnerships, and immigrant and diasporic cultures.

Consisting of 36 chapters, the Handbook is separated into five major sections, starting with the historiography of Nigeria--namely, the systems of knowledge handed down by the indigenous, Christian, Islamic, colonial, and post-colonial traditions. From that foundation, the chapters cover the development of nomadic and agricultural societies, the colonial era, the emergence of a modern Nigeria, and the impact of Nigerians outside of the country's borders. This transnational approach incorporates the most important ideas from the new scholarship emerging in the 21st century, creating a forward-looking volume appropriate for a dynamic, diverse, and swiftly changing Nigeria.

Author Biography

Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights, University of
the Free State. He had served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars'
Council, Kluge Center, the Library of Congress. He has received over thirty lifetime career awards and fourteen honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on Nigeria, including A History of Nigeria; Nigerian Political Modernity; Violence in Nigeria; Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria, and
Understanding Nigeria.

Matthew M. Heaton is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the history of health and illness, migration, and globalization in Africa with particular emphasis on Nigeria. He is the author of Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists,
Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry and co-author of A History of Nigeria.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Matthew M. Heaton and Toyin Falola

Part I: Knowledge Production and Epistemologies of Nigerian History

1. Indigenous Knowledge and Oral Traditions in Nigeria
Toyin Falola

2. Archaeology, Linguistics, and Early Histories of Nigeria
Constanze Weise

3. Islamic Education in Nigeria
Mustapha Hashim Kurfi

4. Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography of Nigeria
Sati U. Fwatshak

Part II: States and Societies to the Nineteenth Century

5. Prehistoric Developments in Nigeria
Peter Breunig

6. The Origins of Kingdoms and Empires in Precolonial Nigeria
Vincent Hiribarren

7. State Management and Political Institutions in Nigeria before 1800
Osarhieme Benson Osadolor

8. Economic Production and Exchange of States and Societies in Precolonial Nigeria
Aribidesi Usman

9. Religion in Precolonial Nigeria
Shobana Shankar

10. European Contact with Nigeria and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Matthew M. Heaton

11. Abolition, Legitimate Commerce, and Christianity in Nigeria
Ayodeji Olukoju

12. Political Revolutions in Nineteenth Century Nigeria
Toyin Falola

Part III: Colonial Rule and the Making of Nigeria

13. The Conquest of Nigeria
Abubakar Babajo Sani

14. The Colonial Administration of Nigeria
Olufemi Vaughan

15. Colonial Economies of Nigeria
Steven Pierce

16. Gender, Class, and Culture in Colonial Nigeria
Funmilayo Idowu Agbaje

17. Nigeria and the World Wars
Oliver Coates

18. Political, Economic, and Social Change in Nigeria, 1945-1960
Lynn Schler

Part IV: Nigeria Since Independence

19. Federalism and the First Republic of Nigeria, 1960-1966
Rotimi T. Suberu

20. The Nigerian Civil War and Its Legacies
Roy Doron

21. The Nigerian Oil Economy and the Rentier State
Adeoye O. Akinola

22. Dictatorship and Democracy in Nigeria, 1966-1999
Eghosa E. Osaghae

23. Religious Nationalisms in Nigeria
Matthews A. Ojo

24. Ethnic Nationalism and Minority Politics in Nigeria
Akin Iwilade and Iwebunor Okwechime

25. Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts in Nigeria
Toyin Falola

26. Women and Gender Relations in Twenty-First Century Nigeria
Adanna Ogbonna-Oluikpe

27. Agriculture, Environment, and Sustainable Development in Nigeria
Chima J. Korieh

28. Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Built Environment in Nigeria
Toyin Falola

29. An Afrocentric Overview of Education, Health, and Welfare Service in Twenty-First Century Nigeria
Jamaine M. Abidogun

30. Federalism and Politics in Nigeria's Fourth Republic
Cyril Obi and Godwin Onuoha

31. Dimensions of Nigeria's National Security and Development Challenges in Changing Global Contexts
N. Oluwafemi Mimiko

Part V: Nigeria in the World

32. Nigeria's Impact on Diasporic Cultures in the Americas
Matt D. Childs

33. Nigeria and the Global Umma
Brandon Kendhammer

34. Migrants, Immigrants, and the New Nigerian Diaspora
Onoso Imoagene

35. Nigeria and African Affairs
Adebayo Oyebade

36. Nigerian Diplomacy, Foreign Relations, and International Entanglements
Toyin Falola

Index