Nigeria's Urban History is a collection of sixteen peer-reviewed essays that explore the nature of Nigeria's urbanism and the challenges it faces. Beginning with analysis of the role of colonialism in the country's urban identity, the volume examines the role of the present oil economy, gender issues, human interactions, poverty, crime, prostitution, and transportation on the nature of urban life and culture. The insights of this collection will benefit students and researchers, historians and social scientists, policymakers and planners alike.

A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence. Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group identification. Based on an African case study, this book calls for new ways of thinking about diversity that go "beyond religious tolerance". Focusing on the predominantly Muslim Yoruba town of Ede, the authors challenge the assumption that religious difference automatically leads to conflict: in south-west Nigeria, Muslims,Christians and traditionalists have co-existed largely peacefully since the early twentieth century. In some contexts, Ede's citizens emphasise the importance and significance of religious difference, and the need for tolerance.But elsewhere they refer to religious boundaries in passing, or even celebrate and transcend religious divisions. Drawing on detailed ethnographic and historical research, survey work, oral histories and poetry by UK- and Nigeria- based researchers, the book examines how Ede's citizens experience religious difference in their everyday lives. It examines the town's royal history and relationship with the deity Sango, its old Islamic compounds and itsChristian institutions, as well as marriage and family life across religious boundaries, to illustrate the multiplicity of religious practices in the life of the town and its citizens and to suggest an alternative approach to religious difference. INSA NOLTE is Reader in African Studies, University of Birmingham, and Visiting Research Professor, Osun State University, Osogbo. OLUKOYA OGEN is Former Provost, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo,Professor of History, Osun State University, Osogbo, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham. REBECCA JONES, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, is author of At the Crossroads: NigerianTravel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English, published by James Currey in 2019. All three editors worked on the ERC project 'Knowing Each Other: Everyday Religious Encounters, Social Identities and Tolerance in Southwest Nigeria'. Nigeria: Adeyemi College Academic Press (paperback)

Studying the African Diaspora can be a complex and sometimes difficult experience for students. The complexity of the subject matter demands broad, thematic or regionally structured content. Instructors are faced with the challenge of making history come alive in the classroom, while intermeshing the complex political, economic, and social aspects of the African experiences.
"The African Diaspora: Historical Analysis, Poetic Verses, and Pedagogy" draws upon the years of classroom experience to deliver diverse pedagogical and modeling tools beyond the traditional lecture and texts analyses. The historical texts and rendition of poems selected for this book are designed to aid students' comprehension of the complex nature of the Africana world. This is a unique text that is ideal for coursing covering World History, African Diaspora, African Literature, and the African and African-American experience.
Dr. Hakeem Ibikunie Tijani is professor of history and the director of Baylor in Senegal and South Africa at Baylor University. He is the author of "Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965" (Routledge, 2005). He was a UK Commonwealth Scholar (1994-1997), recipient of the Harry S. Truman Scholar Grant (1996), and the American Historical Association Bernadotte Schmidt Grant (2005). He recently co-edited "Africa and the Wider World" (Pearson, 2010) with Raphael C. Njoku and Tiffany F. Jones. His next book, "Empire and Education: Labor Union Education in Nigeria Since 1945" will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.

A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence. Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group identification. Based on an African case study, this book calls for new ways of thinking about diversity that go "beyond religious tolerance". Focusing on the predominantly Muslim Yoruba town of Ede, the authors challenge the assumption that religious difference automatically leads to conflict: in south-west Nigeria, Muslims,Christians and traditionalists have co-existed largely peacefully since the early twentieth century. In some contexts, Ede's citizens emphasise the importance and significance of religious difference, and the need for tolerance.But elsewhere they refer to religious boundaries in passing, or even celebrate and transcend religious divisions. Drawing on detailed ethnographic and historical research, survey work, oral histories and poetry by UK- and Nigeria- based researchers, the book examines how Ede's citizens experience religious difference in their everyday lives. It examines the town's royal history and relationship with the deity Sango, its old Islamic compounds and itsChristian institutions, as well as marriage and family life across religious boundaries, to illustrate the multiplicity of religious practices in the life of the town and its citizens and to suggest an alternative approach to religious difference. Insa Nolte is Reader in African Studies at the University of Birmingham, and Visiting Research Professor at Osun State University, Osogbo. She is President of the African Studies Association of the UK(2016-18) and Principal Investigator of the ERC project "Knowing Each Other: Everyday Religious Encounters, Social Identities and Tolerance in Southwest Nigeria". Olukoya Ogen is Provost of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo; Professor of History at Osun State University, Osogbo; and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He is the Nigerian coordinator of the "Knowing Each Other" project. Rebecca Jones is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the "Knowing Each Other" project. Her book, A Cultural History of Nigerian Travel Writing, will be published by James Currey in 2017. Nigeria: Adeyemi College Academic Press (paperback)

This edited volume addresses learning, digitization, pedagogy, and technology across disciplines in the Nigerian context. In the age of technology and pressure to produce employable graduates, teaching has transcended the traditional and Socratic methods. Learning outcomes are now majorly based on igniting the critical thinking of students using varieties of pedagogy within and outside the classroom. In this collection, authors contextualize the varieties of teaching, engagement, integration, and scholarship that ignites critical thinking, discovery, and creativities in the subject areas. From teaching physics to vocational skills, from primary to tertiary institutions, authors bring to the fore the enactment of effective pedagogy, teaching, learning, and most importantly, knowledge production.