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Book SynopsisPolitics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Nigeria, by Ayodeji Olukoju and Tokunbo A. Ayoola, examines key social, political, and economic issues in Nigeria since the colonial period. This book brings together writings on colonial, postcolonial, and contemporary history of Nigeria that provide a panoramic view of diversity, bridge gaps in Nigerian history, and engage with pioneering scholarship in railway and social history in Nigeria by James Olawale Oyemakinde. Some of the themes and perspectives discussed throughout this collection include: contemporary challenges of poverty, unemployment, leadership and governance deficit, entrepreneurship, urbanization, and the underdevelopment of the agricultural and transport systems. Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Nigeria demonstrates that understanding the past helps to develop appropriate policies for contemporary challenges. As highlighted in this volume, it is important to appreciate the significance of context in historical explanation and in the application and adaptation of ideas across space and time.
Trade ReviewThis book brings together interesting perspectives on the socio-economic history of Nigeria: livestock management, railway historiography, coal industry, tourism industry, pre-colonial trade, family firms, political restructuring and other germane issues. All these are deftly analysed to expose not only continuities with the past but also points of departure and twenty-first century novelties. This will remain a major contribution to the literature on Nigeria’s economic history for a long time.
-- Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos
In this captivating volume, its editors and erudite scholars, Tokunbo Ayoola and Ayodeji Olukoju, have produced a compendium impressively researched, beautifully written, and rich in information on pertinent issues on twentieth century Nigeria’s socio-political and economic history. This book, with contributions from leading scholars, is a stunningly provocative and revelatory intellectual work, one that will compel students, scholars, and policymakers, to reassess the Nigerian experience in the last century towards a better understanding of the contemporary state.
-- Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
Table of ContentsForeword by Akanmu G. Adebayo
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction by Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola & Ayodeji Olukoju
Part I: Historiography
Chapter 1: Wale Oyemakinde: The Scholar and Public Policy Engagement by Ayodeji Olukoju
Chapter 2: Wale Oyemakinde and Nigerian Railway Historiography by Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola
Part II: Economy, Business and Trade
Chapter 3: The Nigerian Economy, Transportation, and the Tourism Industry by Oladipo. O. Olubomehin
Chapter 4: Between Diversification and Dissolution: Family Firms in Twentieth-Century Western Nigeria by Ayodeji Olukoju
Chapter 5:Identity, Trade, and Warfare in Arogbo-Ile: Historicising Luso-Dutch Commercial andMilitary Activities in South-eastern Yorubaland during the Seventeenth Century by Olukoya Ogen
Chapter 6:Journeying from Self-sufficiency to Disarticulated and Dependency Economy: Historicizingthe Long route to Economic Recession in Nigeria by Emmanuel Osewe Akubor
Part III:Railways and Development
Chapter 7. Coal Industry, Railway and their Contributions to the Urbanization ofEastern Nigeria, 1909 – 1960 by Alexander Ugwukah and Abiodun A. Adesegun
Chapter 8:“Controversies and Rivalries: The Politics of the Development of the Baro–Kano Railway by Shehu Tijjani Yusuf
Part IV: Governance and The Political Economy of Development
Chapter 9:The Governing of Nigeria and the Politics of its Restructuring by Adedeji Aina Ademola
Chapter 10: Historicizing the Nigerian State and Development by Jeremiah Dibua
Chapter 11: Draft Animal Power and Agricultural Production in Rural Northeast Nigeria: A Study in Cropping System History by Noah Echa Attah and Solomon Okpanachi Amodu
Part V: Social Development
Chapter 12:Clothing the Natives: Police Uniform, Office Dress, and Negotiation of Identity in Colonial Nigeria by Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
13: Colonial Administration, Farmers, and Mixed Farming in Benin Province, Southern Nigeria, 1939-1955 by Uyilawa Usuanlele
14: E-Voting System and Democratization in Nigeria by Olamide Samson Adelana
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