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This report was written on my way home last May, and I very much regret the delay which occurred in...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Politics, Religion
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Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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This book is about the British campaigns against the new slaveries of European imperialism in Africa in the late nineteenth...
Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and the world’s eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in...
History, Nigerian History, Politics
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I know when I was born; I mean to say that there are some people who know when I was...
Demo, Drama, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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A TROPICAL DEPENDENCY It has become the habit of the British mind to think of the British Empire as a...
History, Nigerian History, Politics
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Artists the world over shape knowledge and material into works of unique historical importance. The artists of ancient Ife, ancestral...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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‘Anything, though ever so little, which a man speaks of himself in my opinion is still too much.’ So says...
Autobiography, History, Icon, Nigerian History, Politics, Yoruba History
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Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics
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This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...
Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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THIS ESSAY CONSIDERS one of the most important Yoruba cosmological referents, the plan of the capital Ile- Ife and its...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics, Yoruba History
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THEORISTS of Indirect Rule assumed a relationship between colonial strategy and the degree of political development in African tribal societies.1...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics, Religion
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Many African and religious studies scholars who, like myself, have grown up in indigenous traditions and have been educated in...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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As the most populous nation in Africa, with perhaps a fifth of the continent's entire population, Nigeria is inevitably a...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Politics, Religion
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This book grew out of a Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of London in October 1963. Its aim is...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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This single volume of Encyclopedia of the Yorùbá is the very first to present materials on the Yorùbá in West...
Geo-Politics, History, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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Local markets in Nigerian cities are under-studied but ubiquitous and ancient sites of interethnic conflicts and cooperation of everyday people...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
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Until quite recently, all the known historical traditions about the origin of the Eweka dynasty of Benin were unanimous in...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History