Yorùbá elites and ethnic politics in Nigeria : Ọbá́fẹ́mi Awọ́lówọ̀ and corporate agency / Wale Adebanwi, University of California, Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adebanwi, Wale, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Awolowo, Obafemi, 1909-1987--Influence.

Awolowo, Obafemi.

Yoruba (African people)--Nigeria--Politics and government.

Yoruba (African people).

Yoruba (African people)--Political activity--Nigeria.

Yoruba (African people)--Ethnic identity.

Nigeria--Politics and government--21st century.

Nigeria.

Nigeria--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Yorùbá Elites & Ethnic Politics in Nigeria

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy. Wale Adebanwi demonstrates how the corporate agency of the elite transformed the modern history and politics of one of Africa's largest ethnic groups, the Yorùbá. The argument is organized around the ideas and cultural representations of Ọbáfemi Awólowo, the central signifier of modern Yorùbá culture. Through the narration and analysis of material, non-material and interactional phenomena - such as political party and ethnic group organization, cultural politics, democratic struggle, personal ambitions, group solidarity, death, memory and commemoration - this book examines the foundations of the legitimacy of the Yorùbá political elite. Using historical sociology and ethnographic research, Adebanwi takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the most powerful and progressive elite groups in Africa, tracing its internal and external struggles for power.

Contents:

Introduction. The 'I' as 'we' : corporate agency in an African lifeworld

Elite agency : the making of the modern progenitor

The secular ancestor : the political life of a dead leader

The politics of heritage : (re)constitution, conservation and corporateness in Yorùbá politics

The mantle of Awo : the politics of succession

Reconciliation and retrenchment

How (not) to be a proper Yorùbá

Seizing the heritage : playing proper Yorùbá in an age of uncertainty

Conclusion. Corporate agency and ethnic politics.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-90542-2

1-139-91514-2

1-139-89954-6

1-139-90345-4

1-107-28625-5

1-139-91120-1

1-139-92294-7

1-139-91906-7

1-139-90735-2