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Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation
explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social,
political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the
Diaspora. Sports hold significant value and have an intricate
relationship with many components of African societies throughout
history. For many Africans, sports are a way of life, a site of
cultural heroes, a way out of poverty and social mobility, and a
site for leisurely play. This book focuses on the many ways in
which sports uniquely reflect changing cultural trends at diverse
levels of African societies. The contributors detail various
sports, such as football, cricket, ping pong, and rugby, across the
continent to show how sports lay at the heart of the discourse of
nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and
play, challenges of underdevelopment, and ideas of progress.
Bringing together the newest and most innovative scholarship on
African sports, this book will be of interest to students and
scholars of contemporary Africa, African history, culture and
society, and sports history and politics.
With this multispecies study of animals as instrumentalities of the
colonial state in Nigeria, Saheed Aderinto argues that animals,
like humans, were colonial subjects in Africa. Animality and
Colonial Subjecthood in Africa broadens the historiography of
animal studies by putting a diverse array of species (dogs, horses,
livestock, and wildlife) into a single analytical framework for
understanding colonialism in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. From
his study of animals with unequal political, economic, social, and
intellectual capabilities, Aderinto establishes that the core
dichotomies of human colonial subjecthood--indispensable yet
disposable, good and bad, violent but peaceful, saintly and
lawless--were also embedded in the identities of Nigeria's animal
inhabitants. If class, religion, ethnicity, location, and attitude
toward imperialism determined the pattern of relations between
human Nigerians and the colonial government, then species, habitat,
material value, threat, and biological and psychological
characteristics (among other traits) shaped imperial perspectives
on animal Nigerians. Conceptually sophisticated and intellectually
engaging, Aderinto's thesis challenges readers to rethink what
constitutes history and to recognize that human agency and
narrative are not the only makers of the past.
Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation
explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social,
political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the
Diaspora. Sports hold significant value and have an intricate
relationship with many components of African societies throughout
history. For many Africans, sports are a way of life, a site of
cultural heroes, a way out of poverty and social mobility, and a
site for leisurely play. This book focuses on the many ways in
which sports uniquely reflect changing cultural trends at diverse
levels of African societies. The contributors detail various
sports, such as football, cricket, ping pong, and rugby, across the
continent to show how sports lay at the heart of the discourse of
nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and
play, challenges of underdevelopment, and ideas of progress.
Bringing together the newest and most innovative scholarship on
African sports, this book will be of interest to students and
scholars of contemporary Africa, African history, culture and
society, and sports history and politics.
Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used
to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic,
or to inspire confidence. In Guns and Society, Saheed Aderinto
considers the social, political, and economic history of these
weapons in colonial Nigeria. As he transcends traditional notions
of warfare and militarization, Aderinto reveals surprising insights
into how colonialism changed access to firearms after the 19th
century. In doing so, he explores the unusual ways in which guns
were used in response to changes in the Nigerian cultural
landscape. More Nigerians used firearms for pastime and
professional hunting in the colonial period than at any other time.
The boom and smoke of gunfire even became necessary elements in
ceremonies and political events. Aderinto argues that firearms in
the Nigerian context are not simply commodities but are also
objects of material culture. Considering guns in this larger
context provides a clearer understanding of the ways in which they
transformed a colonized society.
With this multispecies study of animals as instrumentalities of the
colonial state in Nigeria, Saheed Aderinto argues that animals,
like humans, were colonial subjects in Africa. Animality and
Colonial Subjecthood in Africa broadens the historiography of
animal studies by putting a diverse array of species (dogs, horses,
livestock, and wildlife) into a single analytical framework for
understanding colonialism in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. From
his study of animals with unequal political, economic, social, and
intellectual capabilities, Aderinto establishes that the core
dichotomies of human colonial subjecthood--indispensable yet
disposable, good and bad, violent but peaceful, saintly and
lawless--were also embedded in the identities of Nigeria's animal
inhabitants. If class, religion, ethnicity, location, and attitude
toward imperialism determined the pattern of relations between
human Nigerians and the colonial government, then species, habitat,
material value, threat, and biological and psychological
characteristics (among other traits) shaped imperial perspectives
on animal Nigerians. Conceptually sophisticated and intellectually
engaging, Aderinto's thesis challenges readers to rethink what
constitutes history and to recognize that human agency and
narrative are not the only makers of the past.
Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used
to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic,
or to inspire confidence. In Guns and Society, Saheed Aderinto
considers the social, political, and economic history of these
weapons in colonial Nigeria. As he transcends traditional notions
of warfare and militarization, Aderinto reveals surprising insights
into how colonialism changed access to firearms after the 19th
century. In doing so, he explores the unusual ways in which guns
were used in response to changes in the Nigerian cultural
landscape. More Nigerians used firearms for pastime and
professional hunting in the colonial period than at any other time.
The boom and smoke of gunfire even became necessary elements in
ceremonies and political events. Aderinto argues that firearms in
the Nigerian context are not simply commodities but are also
objects of material culture. Considering guns in this larger
context provides a clearer understanding of the ways in which they
transformed a colonized society.
The book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the
nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist
historiography and the leading themes. The second half of the
twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of
literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This
volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by
Nigerians in thecontext of the rise and decline of African
nationalist historiography. Given the diminishing share in the
global output of literature on Africa by African historians, it has
become crucial to reintroduce Africans into historicalwriting about
Africa. As the authors attempt here to rescue older voices, they
also rehabilitate a stale historiography by revisiting the issues,
ideas, and moments that produced it. This revivalism also
challenges Nigerian historians of the twenty-first century to study
the nation in new ways, to comprehend its modernity, and to frame a
new set of questions on Nigeria's future and globalization. In
spite of current problems in Nigeria and its universities, that
historical scholarship on Nigeria (and by extension, Africa) has
come of age is indisputable. From a country that struggled for
Western academic recognition in the 1950s to one that by the 1980s
had emerged as one of the most studied countries in Africa, Nigeria
is not only one of the early birthplaces of modern African history,
but has also produced members of the first generation of African
historians whose contributions to the development and expansion of
modern African history is undeniable. Like their counterparts
working on other parts of the world, these scholars have been
sensitive to the need to explore virtually all aspects of Nigerian
history. The book highlights the careers of some of Nigeria's
notable historians of the first and second generation. Toyin Falola
is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and
University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of
Texas at Austin. Saheed Aderinto is Assistant Professor of History
at Western Carolina University.
This history-rich volume details the sociopolitical, economic, and
artistic aspects of African kingdoms from the earliest times to the
second half of the 19th century. Africa has a long and fascinating
history and is a place of growing importance in the world history
curriculum. This detailed encyclopedia covers the history of
African kingdoms from antiquity through the mid-19th century,
tracing the dynasties' ties to modern globalization and influences
on world culture before, during, and after the demise of the slave
trade. Along with an exploration of African heritage, this
reference is rich with firsthand accounts of Africa through the
oral traditions of its people and the written journals of European
explorers, missionaries, and travelers who visited Africa from the
15th century and onward. Alphabetically arranged entries cover a
particular kingdom and feature information on the economic,
cultural, religious, political, social, and environmental history
of the regime. The content references popular culture, movies, and
art that present contemporary reenactments of kingdoms, emphasizing
the importance of history in shaping modern ideas. Other features
include primary source documents, a selected bibliography of print
and electronic resources, and dozens of sidebars containing key
facts and interesting trivia. Provides relevant perspective on
globalization in the pre-modern era, documenting how humans across
time and places have shared various components of customs ranging
from food, language, and music to religion and spirituality
Supports Common Core standards Includes primary documents for
enhancing critical thinking and research skills Features cross
references and suggestions for further reading Highlights key facts
and interesting trivia through illuminating sidebars
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.
Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex
relationship to colonialism, When Sex Threatened the State
illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial
Nigeria.
As Saheed Aderinto shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as
an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as
part of imperialism's "civilizing mission." He details the Nigerian
response to imported sexuality laws and the contradictory ways both
African and British reformers advocated for prohibition or
regulation of prostitution. Tracing the tensions within diverse
groups of colonizers and the colonized, he reveals how wrangling
over prostitution camouflaged the negotiating of separate issues
that threatened the social, political, and sexual ideologies of
Africans and Europeans alike.
The first book-length project on sexuality in early twentieth
century Nigeria, "When "Sex Threatened the State combines the study
of a colonial demimonde with an urban history of Lagos and a look
at government policy to reappraise the history of Nigerian public
life.
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