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Nigeria is a bellwether, in an enormous continent, endowed with
natural resources and human capital, whose development and
greatness have been marred by political instability since gaining
home-rule from Britain in 1960. The contemporary political,
economic, and social quandaries that have stultified Nigeria's
growth project flows from difficulties in cultivating patriotic
leaders with pluck to enact efficacious policies that will catapult
the country to greater heights developmentally. Nigeria in the
Fourth Republic: Confronting the Contemporary Political, Economic,
and Social Dilemmas, edited by E. Ike Udogu, examines some of the
vital issues responsible for the current political malaise and
recommends strategies for exculpating the country from her current
political quagmires. The contributors to this book argue, inter
alia, for the avoidance of false starts reminiscent of the military
interventions that aborted the democracy project and advocates the
enactment of effective policies to supersede decision dictated by
politics. This volume proposes national healthcare strategies to
address the country's healthcare needs and for dialogue to
extinguish combustible inter-religious conflicts. The book
recommends ways to assuage police highway malfeasance and explains
why human rights observance is critical to further national
cohesion while creating space for the subalterns to have their
voices heard in discourses on how to advance peaceful coexistence.
This book takes as its theme the ways in which governments
legitimate their rule, both to themselves and to their subjects.
Its introduction explores legitimacy and pre-colonial states, but
the three sections of the book deal with colonial legitimacy, the
question of legitimation in the transition from colonialism to
majority rule, and the contemporary debate about accountability.
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how
Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have
provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the
construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival
sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces
Nigeria's social, religious, and political history from the early
nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century,
the historic Sokoto Jihad in today's northern Nigeria and the
Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria
provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial
society. Following Nigeria's independence from Britain in 1960,
Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious
conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among
political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram.
These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs,
ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances
founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how
Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have
provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the
construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival
sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces
Nigeria's social, religious, and political history from the early
nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century,
the historic Sokoto Jihad in today's northern Nigeria and the
Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria
provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial
society. Following Nigeria's independence from Britain in 1960,
Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious
conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among
political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram.
These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs,
ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances
founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.
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.
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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