The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa's most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious communities, economic partnerships, and immigrant and diasporic cultures.
Consisting of 36 chapters, the Handbook is separated into five major sections, starting with the historiography of Nigeria--namely, the systems of knowledge handed down by the indigenous, Christian, Islamic, colonial, and post-colonial traditions. From that foundation, the chapters cover the development of nomadic and agricultural societies, the colonial era, the emergence of a modern Nigeria, and the impact of Nigerians outside of the country's borders. This transnational approach incorporates the most important ideas from the new scholarship emerging in the 21st century, creating a forward-looking volume appropriate for a dynamic, diverse, and swiftly changing Nigeria.
Author(s): Toyin Falola, Matthew Heaton
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 790
City: New York
Cover
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Knowledge Production and Epistemologies of Nigerian History
1. Indigenous Knowledge and Oral Traditions in Nigeria
2. Archaeology, Linguistics, and Early Histories of Nigeria
3. Islamic Education in Nigeria
4. Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography of Nigeria
Part II: States and Societies to the Nineteenth Century
5. Prehistoric Developments in Nigeria
6. The Origins of Kingdoms and Empires in Precolonial Nigeria
7. State Management and Political Institutions in Nigeria before 1800
8. Economic Production and Exchange of States and Societies in Precolonial Nigeria
9. Religion in Precolonial Nigeria
10. European Contact and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the Gulf of Guinea
11. Abolition, Legitimate Commerce, and Christianity in Nigeria
12. Political Revolutions in Nineteenth-Century Nigeria
Part III: Colonial Rule and the Making of Nigeria
13. The Conquest of Nigeria
14. The Colonial Administration of Nigeria
15. Colonial Economies of Nigeria
16. Gender, Class, and Culture in Colonial Nigeria
17. Nigeria and the World Wars
18. Political, Economic, and Social Change in Nigeria, 1945–1960
Part IV: Nigeria Since Independence
19. Federalism and the First Republic of Nigeria, 1960–1966
20. The Nigerian Civil War and Its Legacies
21. The Nigerian Oil Economy and the Rentier State
22. Dictatorship and Democracy in Nigeria, 1966–1999
23. Religious Nationalisms in Nigeria
24. Ethnic Nationalism and Minority Politics in Nigeria
25. Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts in Nigeria
26. Women and Gender Relations in Twenty-First Century Nigeria
27. Agriculture, Environment, and Sustainable Development in Nigeria
28. Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Built Environment in Nigeria
29. An Afrocentric Overview of Education, Health, and Welfare Service in Twenty-First-Century Nigeria
30. Federalism and Politics in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
31. Dimensions of Nigeria’s National Security and Development Challenges in Changing Global Contexts
Part V: Nigeria in the World
32. Nigeria’s Impact on Diasporic Cultures in the Americas
33. Nigeria and the Global Umma
34. Migrants, Immigrants, and the New Nigerian Diaspora
35. Nigeria and African Affairs
36. Nigerian Diplomacy, Foreign Relations, and International Entanglements
Index
