Precolonial Nigeria : essays in honor of Toyin Falola / edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falola, Toyin.

Ogundiran, Akinwumi

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nigeria--History--To 1851.

Nigeria.

History.

Nigeria--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xi, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2005]

Contents:

Themes and directions in the history of precolonial Nigeria / Akinwumi Ogundiran

Toyin Falola and the history of nineteenth century Yorubaland / Akinwumi Ogundiran

Early agricultural societies : innovations in technology and economy before AD 100 / Raphael Alabi

Groundwork of human occupation in the Chad basin, northeast Nigeria, 2000 BC-1000 AD / Peter Breunig

Metallurgical traditions : origins, technology and social implications / David Aremu

State formation in precolonial Nigeria : a historiographic assessment / Osarhieme B. Osadolor and Leo E. Otoide

Archaeology of Tiv setlements in the Benue Valley and implications for the history of Bantu Homeland / Caleb Adebayo Folorunso

Igbo civilization : an archaeological and historical ethnographic profile / A. Ikechukwu Okpoko and A. Maduabuchi Ibeanu

Women, power, and political institution in Igboland / Egodi Uchendu

Yoruba urbanism : the archaeology and historical ethnography of Ile-Ife and Old Oyo / Babatunde Agbaje-Williams

The Yoruba Palace as court of arbitration / O.B. Olaoba

Precolonial Benin : a political economy perspective / Uyilawa Usuanlele

Religion, state, and society in Hausaland : history and the politics of incorporation in the Kano chronicle / Shobana Shanka

Kano : the development of a trading city in central Sudan / Rasheed Olaniyi

Precoloniao Borgu : its history and culture / Richard Kuba and Olayemi Akinwumi

Crisis and catastrophe : warfare in precolonial northern Yoruba / Aribidesi Usman

Uneasy neighbors : Gbagyi and Nupe interactions, 1300-1850 / Sule Mohammed

Ijo-Itsekiri relations, 1500-1850 / Benjamin Okpevra

Water transportation in the Niger Delta, 1500-1900 / Edith Osiruemu

The making of an oligarchy in the Bight of Biafra : perspectives on the Aro ascendency / Pat Uche Okpoko and Paul Obi-Ani

The Atlantic slave trade and impacts on the Nigerian hinterland, 1500-1900 / Mohammad Bashir Salau

Revolutionary changes in the nineteenth century / Onaiwu W. Ogbomo

Transformations in the Niger-Benue Confluence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Mailafiya Aruwa Filaba

Christian missions and religious encounters at the Niger-Benue Confluence / Femi J. Kolapo

Prelude to the British "Punitive expedition" to Benin : an analysis of the Gallwey Treaty of 1892 / Leo E. Otoide.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1592212182

1592212190

OCLC:

60715180