Nigeria’s University Age: Reframing Decolonisation and Development

✍ Scribed by Tim Livsey (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 296
Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using political, cultural and spatial approaches, the book shows that Nigerians and foreign donors alike saw the nation’s new universities as vital institutions: a means to educate future national leaders, drive economic growth, and make a modern Nigeria. Universities were vibrant places, centres of nightlife, dance, and the construction of spectacular buildings, as well as teaching and research. At universities, students, scholars, visionaries, and rebels considered and contested colonialism, the global Cold War, and the future of Nigeria. University life was shaped by, and formative to, experiences of development and decolonisation. The book will be of interest to historians of Africa, empire, education, architecture, and the Cold War.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Nigeria’s University Age (Tim Livsey)....Pages 1-18
An Imperial Frame: Universities and the West African Roots of Colonial Development (Tim Livsey)....Pages 19-40
Paradoxes of Decolonisation: University College Ibadan and the Late Colonial State (Tim Livsey)....Pages 41-64
Making Modern Space: Architecture and Decolonisation at University College Ibadan (Tim Livsey)....Pages 65-88
An Incomplete Elite: Student Culture, Everyday Life, and Decolonisation at Ibadan (Tim Livsey)....Pages 89-118
Multilateral Negotiations: Nigerian Universities, the United States, and the Cold War (Tim Livsey)....Pages 119-143
Breakdown: University Development and the Nigerian Crises (Tim Livsey)....Pages 145-172
Conclusion (Tim Livsey)....Pages 173-181
Back Matter ....Pages 183-285

✦ Subjects

Imperialism and Colonialism

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