Architecture And Politics In Nigeria

Author : Nnamdi Elleh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317179358
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Politics in Nigeria written by Nnamdi Elleh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants. Founded five years after the Civil War with Biafra, which caused around 1.7 million deaths, the city was envisaged as a place where justice would reign and where people from different social, religious, ethnic, and political backgrounds would come together in a peaceful manner and work together to develop their country and its economy. These were all laudable goals, but they ironically mobilized certain forces from around the country in opposition against the Federal Government of Nigeria. The international and modernist style architecture and the fact that the government spent tens of billions of dollars constructing this idealized capital ended up causing more strife and conflict. For groups like Boko Haram, a Nigerian Al-Qaida affiliate organization, and other smaller ethnic groups seeking to have a say in how the country’s oil wealth is spent, Abuja symbolized everything in Nigeria they sought to change. By examining the creation of the modernist national public spaces of Abuja within a broader historical and global context, this book looks at how the successes and the failures of these spaces have affected the citizens of the country and have, in fact, radicalized individuals with these spaces being scene of some of the most important political events and terrorist targets, including bombings and protest rallies. Although focusing on Nigeria’s capital, the study has a wider global implication in that it draws attention to how postcolonial countries that were formed at the turn of the twentieth century are continuously fragmenting and remade by the emergence of new nation states like South Sudan.

Author : Nnamdi Elleh
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781472465306
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Politics in Nigeria National Identity and International Modernism in Abuja written by Nnamdi Elleh and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552385180
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Access written by Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere in Africa has the question of access to university education reached such a crescendo of concern and posed such as challenge to the polity, as in Nigeria. By illuminating the history of massification of university education in Nigeria, Anyanwu makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the challenges of nation building in multi-ethnic and religious societies and demonstrates that the intractable issues in Africa's university education system.

Author : Patricia Blessing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009051180
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire written by Patricia Blessing and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Patricia Blessing explores the emergence of Ottoman architecture in the fifteenth century and its connection with broader geographical contexts. Analyzing how transregional exchange shaped building practices, she examines how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and Iran and Central Asia participated in key construction projects. She also demonstrates how drawn, scalable models on paper served as templates for architectural decorations and supplemented collaborations that involved the mobility of workers. Blessing reveals how the creation of centralized workshops led to the emergence of a clearly defined imperial Ottoman style by 1500, when the flexibility and experimentation of the preceding century was levelled. Her book radically transforms our understanding of Ottoman architecture by exposing the diverse and fluid nature of its formative period. It also provides the reader with an understanding of design, planning, and construction processes of a major empire of the Islamic world.

Author : Dawit Yekoyesew
Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 : 9781847013323
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Politics in Africa written by Dawit Yekoyesew and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available.

Author : Nnamdi Elleh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367667955
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Politics in Nigeria written by Nnamdi Elleh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants. Founded five years after the Civil War with Biafra, which caused around 1.7 million deaths, the city was envisaged as a place where justice would reign and where people from different social, religious, ethnic, and political backgrounds would come together in a peaceful manner and work together to develop their country and its economy. These were all laudable goals, but they ironically mobilized certain forces from around the country in opposition against the Federal Government of Nigeria. The international and modernist style architecture and the fact that the government spent tens of billions of dollars constructing this idealized capital ended up causing more strife and conflict. For groups like Boko Haram, a Nigerian Al-Qaida affiliate organization, and other smaller ethnic groups seeking to have a say in how the country's oil wealth is spent, Abuja symbolized everything in Nigeria they sought to change. By examining the creation of the modernist national public spaces of Abuja within a broader historical and global context, this book looks at how the successes and the failures of these spaces have affected the citizens of the country and have, in fact, radicalized individuals with these spaces being scene of some of the most important political events and terrorist targets, including bombings and protest rallies. Although focusing on Nigeria's capital, the study has a wider global implication in that it draws attention to how postcolonial countries that were formed at the turn of the twentieth century are continuously fragmenting and remade by the emergence of new nation states like South Sudan.

Author : Adedayo Jeremiah Adeyekun
Publisher : P. K. Patel Publications
ISBN 13 : 9354164099
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE ARCHITECTURE OF ADEDAYO JEREMIAH ADEYEKUN written by Adedayo Jeremiah Adeyekun and published by P. K. Patel Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adedayo Jeremiah Adeyekun is a Nigerian Author, Architect, Artist, Urban Planner, Educator and a Preacher of the Word of God. He is the son of Mr. Pius Oladele Adeyekun, a registered contractor and Mrs Victoria Folayemi Adeyekun, a retired teacher in a government school in Lagos. His father inspired him to study architecture not because he was talented in art but because of his friend who is an architect. He was encouraged by the practice of the profession of his friend Arc. Abiodun Christopher Akinrimisi, 47 years experienced fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects and one of Nigeria’s Pioneer Architect with ARCON NO: F/195, a forefront of Nigerian Architecture, having designed some of the most prestigious buildings in Nigeria (1973 – 2020). Adedayo was an apprentice with Architect A. C. Akinrimisi for 10 months in 2007 and said his master told him to follow instructions and be patient in learning otherwise you can’t work here. He said his master was always complaining about spaces and said waste spaces in design will require more materials; hence all spaces in design must have a compulsory use. The Architecture of Adedayo Jeremiah Adeyekun comprises of his autobiography and different types of buildings including mass Housing, Hotel, Hostels, Offices and Mixed – Used Development, Stadium/Sport Centres, Schools/Institutional Building, Hospital/Health Centres in Nigeria and India. Adedayo is trying to create contextual relevant modern architectural idiom that will be suitable for Nigeria. This book is a collection of 254 Drawings in 60 Selected Projects, 102 Displayed Pictures of Buildings and Live Construction Projects, 30 Architectural Models/Sketches and 125 Pictures for Autobiography. Adedayo designed about 122 buildings of which 47 have been constructed in Nigeria and India. More than 20 buildings already constructed in India making him the only Nigerian Architect whoever practiced in India with a good knowledge of Indian Architectural Style.

Author : Lisa Findley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134366620
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Change written by Lisa Findley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Change investigates the shifting relationships between power, space and architecture in a world where a number of subjected people are reasserting their political and cultural agency. To explore these changes, the book describes and analyzes four recent building projects embedded in complex and diverse historical, political, cultural and spatial circumstances. The projects yield a range of insights for revitalizing the role of architecture as an engaged cultural and spatial practice.

Author : Ben Tosland
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035626774
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Are Godwin and Hopwood? written by Ben Tosland and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive monograph about the tropical architecture of Godwin and Hopwood in Nigeria After studying at the Architectural Association in London, John Godwin and Gillian Hopwood moved to Nigeria, where they significantly shaped the country's architectural landscape for more than sixty years. When Nigeria became independent in 1960 following British dominance since the 19th century, the couple worked to create architecture that was site-specific, modern, and adapted to the climate relevant to Nigeria's aspirational political and economic policies. In this richly illustrated monograph, organised by typology, Ben Tosland examines Godwin and Hopwood's form of tropical modernism and illuminates its contemporary meanings and concluding with its relevance in times of the climate crisis. First comprehensive monograph about the architecture of Godwin and Hopwood Image-rich publication on one of the most important architectural practices for post-colonial, independent Nigeria Insightful findings for passive structural cooling techniques

Author : Zainab Usman
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 1786993953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Diversification in Nigeria written by Zainab Usman and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria has for long been regarded as the poster child for the 'curse' of oil wealth. Yet despite this, Nigeria achieved strong economic growth for over a decade in the 21st century, driven largely by policy reforms in non-oil sectors. This open access book argues that Nigeria's major development challenge is not the 'oil curse', but rather one of achieving economic diversification beyond oil, subsistence agriculture, informal activities, and across its subnational entities. Through analysis drawing on economic data, policy documents, and interviews, Usman argues that Nigeria's challenge of economic diversification is situated within the political setting of an unstable distribution of power among individual, group, and institutional actors. Since the turn of the century, policymaking by successive Nigerian governments has, despite superficial partisan differences, been oriented towards short-term crisis management of macroeconomic stabilization, restoring growth and selective public sector reforms. To diversify Nigeria's economy, this book argues that successive governments must reorient towards a consistent focus on pro-productivity and pro-poor policies, alongside comprehensive civil service and security sector overhaul. These policy priorities, Nigeria's ruling elites are belatedly acknowledging, are crucial to achieving economic transformation; a policy shift that requires a confrontation with the roots of perpetual political crisis, and an attempt to stabilize the balance of power towards equity and inclusion. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.