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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
Series: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
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In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old
father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters
written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria,
between 1926 and 1994. The people who wrote these letters had
emerged from the religious, social, and educational institutions
established by the Church Missionary Society, the preeminent
Anglican mission in the Atlantic Nigerian region following the
imposition of British colonial rule. Abiodun, recruited to be a
civil servant in the colonial Department of Agriculture, became a
leader of a prominent family in Ibadan, the dominant Yoruba city in
southern Nigeria. Reading deeply in these letters, Vaughan realized
he had a unique set of sources to illuminate everyday life in
modern Nigeria. Letter writing was a dominant form of communication
for Western-educated elites in colonial Africa, especially in
Nigeria. Exposure to the modern world and a growing sense of
nationalism were among the factors that led people to begin
exchanging letters, particularly in their interactions with British
colonial authorities. Through careful textual analysis and broad
contextualization, Vaughan reconstructs dominant storylines,
including themes such as kinship, social mobility, Western
education, modernity, and elite consolidation in colonial and
post-colonial Nigeria. Vaughan brings his prodigious skills as an
interdisciplinary scholar to bear on this wealth of information,
bringing to life a portrait, at once intimate and expansive, of a
community during a transformative period in African history.
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Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Olufemi Vaughan
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-299-34450-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-299-34450-9 |
Barcode: |
9780299344504 |
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