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Tradition and change in Africa : the essays of J.F. Ade Ajayi
- Title
- Tradition and change in Africa : the essays of J.F. Ade Ajayi / edited by Toyin Falola.
- Author
- Ajayi, J. F. Ade.
- Publication
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Falola, Toyin.
- Description
- xliii, 468 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Classic authors and texts on Africa
- Subject
- Note
- Selection of essays written 1958-1998, some of which are published for the first time.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Social justice in traditional societies -- Nineteenth century wars and Yoruba ethnicity -- Cultural foundations of African unity -- Tradition and development -- Henry Venn and the policy of development -- Nineteenth century origins of Nigerian nationalism -- Bishop Crowther: a patriot to the core -- Native agency in nineteenth century west Africa -- A new Christian politics? -- Continuity of African institutions under colonial rule -- Colonialism: an episode in African history -- Decolonization and the birth of neo-colonialism -- Legitimacy in Africa and the factor of colonialism --Africa and the new world order -- The national question in Nigeria in historical perspective -- National history in the context of decolonization -- Ethnicity and nationalism in Nigeria -- Democracy in Nigeria : an historical analysis -- The Atlantic slave trade and Africa -- Africa's development crisis in historical perspective -- Bishop Crowther and Taubman Goldie in the Sokoto Caliphate -- The crusade for reparations -- Pan-Africanism and the struggle for reparation -- The Ibadan school of history -- History and the nation -- Mortality and change -- History and the social sciences -- The search for relevance in the humanities in Africa -- On being an Africanist.
- Call Number
- Sc E 00-649
- ISBN
- 0865437688
- 0865437696 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 99041312
- OCLC
- 41659964
- Author
- Ajayi, J. F. Ade.
- Title
- Tradition and change in Africa : the essays of J.F. Ade Ajayi / edited by Toyin Falola.
- Imprint
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2000.
- Series
- Classic authors and texts on Africa
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Falola, Toyin.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 00-649