Farmers And The State In Colonial Kano

Author : Steven Pierce
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253111544
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano written by Steven Pierce and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano, Steven Pierce examines issues surrounding the colonial state and the distribution of state power in northern Nigeria. Here, Pierce deconstructs the colonial state and offers a unique reading of land tenure that challenges earlier views of the role of indirect rule. According to Pierce, land tenure was the means the colonial government used to rule the local population and extract taxes from them, but it was also a political logic with a fundamental flaw and a Western bias. In Pierce's view, colonial representations of land tenure claimed to reflect precolonial systems of rule, but instead, fundamentally misrepresented farmers' experience. He maintains that this misrepresentation created a paradox at the core of the colonial state which persists into the present and helps to explain contemporary problems in African states. In this sweeping and eloquent account of African history, readers will find an extended genealogy of land law and taxation as well as rich material on the power of indigenous knowledge and the persistence of colonial systems of rule.

Author : Mohammed Bashir Salau
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
ISBN 13 : 1580469388
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate written by Mohammed Bashir Salau and published by Rochester Studies in African H. This book was released on 2018 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of synthesis on plantation slavery in nineteenth century Sokoto caliphate, engaging with major debates on internal African slavery, on the meaning of the term "plantation," and on comparative slavery

Author : Aribidesi Usman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107064600
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present written by Aribidesi Usman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.

Author : Gift Wasambo Kayira
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666921661
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi written by Gift Wasambo Kayira and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the origins of British ideas on rural poverty, and how did they shape development practice in Malawi? How did the international development narrative influence the poverty discourse in postcolonial Malawi from the 1960s onwards? In The State and the Legacies of British Colonial Development in Malawi: Confronting Poverty, 1939–1983, Gift Wasambo Kayira addresses these questions. Although by no means rehabilitating colonialism, the book argues that the intentions of officials and agencies charged with delivering economic development programs were never as ill-informed or wicked as some theorists have contended. Raising rural populations from poverty was on the agenda before and after independence. How to reconcile the pressing demand of stabilizing the country’s economy and alleviating rural poverty within the context of limited resources proved an impossible task to achieve. Also difficult was how to reconcile the interests of outside experts influenced by international geopolitics and theories of economic development and those of local personnel and politicians. As a result, development efforts always fell short of their goals. Through a meticulous search of the archive on rural and industrial development projects, Kayira presents a development history that displays the shortfalls of existing works on development inadequately grounded in historical study.

Author : Steven Pierce
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374544
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Economies of Corruption written by Steven Pierce and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption plays an important role in the processes of political change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best understood in Nigeria, as well as in all other nations, as a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. The best solution to combatting Nigerian government corruption, Pierce contends, is not through attempts to prevent officials from diverting public revenue to self-interested ends, but to ask how public ends can be served by accommodating Nigeria's history of patronage as a fundamental political principle.

Author : Saheed Aderinto
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096843
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Sex Threatened the State written by Saheed Aderinto and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, When Sex Threatened the State illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. As Saheed Aderinto shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's "civilizing mission". He details the Nigerian response to imported sexuality laws and the contradictory ways both African and British reformers advocated for prohibition or regulation of prostitution. Tracing the tensions within diverse groups of colonizers and the colonized, he reveals how wrangling over prostitution camouflaged the negotiating of separate issues that threatened the social, political, and sexual ideologies of Africans and Europeans alike. The first book-length project on sexuality in early twentieth century Nigeria, When Sex Threatened the State combines the study of a colonial demimonde with an urban history of Lagos and a look at government policy to reappraise the history of Nigerian public life.

Author : Moses E. Ochonu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011655
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonialism by Proxy written by Moses E. Ochonu and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses E. Ochonu explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Ochonu reveals that the outsiders ruled with an iron fist and imagined themselves as bearers of Muslim civilization rather than carriers of the white man's burden. Stressing that this type of Indirect Rule violated its primary rationale, Colonialism by Proxy traces contemporary violent struggles to the legacy of the dynamics of power and the charged atmosphere of religious difference.

Author : Francesca Locatelli
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442482
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Cities written by Francesca Locatelli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the unprecedented expansion of African cities, which are the products of specific histories, poses serious challenges to equitable service provision and raises contentious claims to the ownership and control of urban spaces.

Author : Steven Pierce
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822337430
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discipline and the Other Body written by Steven Pierce and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on corporeal violence, the body's emergence as a political entity in colonial and postcolonial governance, and the production of a discourse of human rights./div

Author : M. Salau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230120164
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The West African Slave Plantation written by M. Salau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative look at one piece of the historically significant Sokoto Caliphate.