Yorùbá elites and ethnic politics in Nigeria : Ọbá́fẹ́mi Awọ́lówọ̀ and corporate agency / Wale Adebanwi, University of California, Davis.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014Description: xviii, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 9781107054226
- Awolowo, Obafemi, 1909-1987 -- Influence
- Yoruba (African people) -- Nigeria -- Politics and government
- Yoruba (African people) -- Political activity -- Nigeria
- Yoruba (African people) -- Ethnic identity
- Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- Nigeria -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
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- DT515.45.Y67 A218 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283) and index.
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.
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