Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics: 22 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) - Hardcover

Book 16 of 94: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
 
9781580462198: Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics: 22 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1580462197 ISBN 13: 9781580462198
Publisher: University of Rochester Press, 2006

Synopsis

Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics covers the major issues in Yorùbá history and politics, offering through narratives of the past and present a solid understanding of one of the most popular ethnic groups in Africa. Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics covers the major issues on Yorùbá history and politics, thus offering a solid understanding of one of the most popular ethnic groups in Africa. With a careful blend of sources and methods,narratives on the past and present, the book manages to present a long history as the backdrop to complicated contemporary politics. Contributors: Tunde M. Akinwumi, Olufunke A. Adeboye, R. T. Akinyele, Aribidesi Usman, Tunde Oduwobi, Olufemi Vaughan, Abolade Adeniji, Jean-Luc Martineau, Ann O'Hear, Rasheed Olaniyi, Charles Temitope Adeyanju, Julius O. Adekunle, Funso Afolayan, Olayiwola Abegunrin. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Ann Genova is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.

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About the Authors

TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

RASHEED OYEWOLE OLANIYI is Professor of African History at the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and books on Economic and Social History focusing on migration and diaspora studies, conflict and peacebuilding, identity politics, and vigilantism.

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Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1580462197
ISBN 13 
9781580462198
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
380
Editor
Genova Ann, Falola Professor Toyin