1902 Northern Nigeria Report
This report was written on my way home last May, and I very much regret the delay which occurred in...
1958 London Conference
Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
A Civilised Savagery Britain And...
This book is about the British campaigns against the new slaveries of European imperialism in Africa in the late nineteenth...
A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt
I know when I was born; I mean to say that there are some people who know when I was...
African States Citizenship and war:...
This article, first given as a talk to a seminar of the Uganda Parliament in 2000, is a reflection on...
America and Political Islam_ Clash...
This book chronicles the policy debates on Islamism in the United
States over the course of time, providing a...
Art in Ancient Ife, Birthplace...
Artists the world over shape knowledge and material into works of unique historical importance. The artists of ancient Ife, ancestral...
Awon Asa ati Orisa Ile...
Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
Between the ethnic and the...
This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...
Between the ethnic and the...
This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...
Blier Cosmic References In Ancient...
THIS ESSAY CONSIDERS one of the most important Yoruba cosmological referents, the plan of the capital Ile- Ife and its...
British Rule and Indigenous Organization...
THEORISTS of Indirect Rule assumed a relationship between colonial strategy and the degree of political development in African tribal societies.1...
Christianity, Islam, and Oriṣa Religion:...
In May 2013 a young man called Michael Adebolajo, London-born and of Christian
Yoruba background, hacked a soldier to...
City of Gods Ilé-Ifè in...
Many African and religious studies scholars who, like myself, have grown up in indigenous traditions and have been educated in...
Class, Ethnicity and Democracy in...
As the most populous nation in Africa, with perhaps a fifth of the continent's entire population, Nigeria is inevitably a...
DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS 1708-1818
This book grew out of a Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of London in October 1963. Its aim is...
Does Diversity Hurt Democracy
While reporting recently on his organization’s annual survey of political rights and civil liberties around the world, Freedom House president...
Encyclopedia Of The Yoruba
This single volume of Encyclopedia of the Yorùbá is the very first to present materials on the Yorùbá in West...
Everyday People Autochthony And Indigene...
Local markets in Nigerian cities are under-studied but ubiquitous and ancient sites of interethnic conflicts and cooperation of everyday people...
Eweka Dynasty
Until quite recently, all the known historical traditions about the origin of the Eweka dynasty of Benin were unanimous in...