Author : Emmanuel Ayankanmi Ayandele
Publisher : Ibadan, Nigeria : Ibadan University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1974
Category : College graduates
ISBN :
Author : Pere Ayling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811357811
This book offers unique insights into elite Nigerian parents’ engagement with, and use of, the international secondary education market as they attempt to retain their social standing - via their children - under today’s shifting global conditions. Throughout, the book tackles two important, albeit uncomfortable questions: Why does whiteness hold the highest possible value in postcolonial societies such as Nigeria? And, more importantly, why do black people accept the hegemonic discourse that West/white is best? Combining the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Frantz Fanon, the book reveals ‘Whiteness’ as a highly valuable form of cultural and symbolic capital that plays a crucial role in the formation of, and struggle for, elite status and distinction in modern-day Nigeria. Drawing on rare qualitative data sets along with postcolonial literatures, the book reveals how British whiteness is used by those working at and for British private schools in Nigeria (BPS-NIG) as an informal but powerful mechanism of ‘quality’ control, and in constructing the image of ‘world-class’ educational establishments.
Author : E. A. Ayandele
Publisher :
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 1974
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Joseph A. Balogun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 100031961X
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria, looking back to how health care education has evolved in the country over time, before investigating new and emerging trends. The book begins with a discussion of the fundamentals of health care education, the art of teaching health care students, and modeling professionalism in health care. The book highlights the work of pioneer Nigerian health care academics, and explores the administration of health care education at departmental level. Finally, it highlights the role of elite Nigerian health care academics in the diaspora, chronicles contemporary challenges in health care education, and makes recommendations for reform. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners working on health care education in Africa.
Author : Judith Stein
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807116708
In the years during and after World War I the Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey led what has been called the largest international mass movement of black people in the twentieth century. He and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), built a steamship line, sponsored expeditions to Liberia, staged annual international conventions, inspired many black business enterprises, endorsed black political candidates, and fostered the study of black history and culture. In The World of Marcus Garvey, Judith Stein examines Garvey’s ideology and appeal by placing Garvey and the UNIA carefully in the context of the international black politics and class structure of the period. She analyzes the ways Garvey boldly employed conventional racial ideas and goals to organize a militant black population during the social and political upheavals of World War I and its aftermath. In addition, Stein sheds new light on her subject, drawing on personal interviews with surviving Garveyites and reports from the federal government’s intelligence organizations.
Author : Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 9781592213245
These essays attempt to focus the light of history,on Nigeria, Nigerians and their contemporary,condition. The root idea here is that fundamental,to all historical works - that when the mind,interacts with the past, the result is something,like a torchlight whose beam is focused on the,present, thus enabling us to achieve a better,understanding of the problems which face us.,Afigbo has probed deep into Nigeria's pastbringing out all the facets, all the elements and,all the issues that are necessary to improve the,present.
Author : Gerald McLoughlin
Publisher : Army War College Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Ethnic conflict
ISBN : 9781584875772
Nigeria¿s future as a unified state is in jeopardy. Those who make or execute U.S. policy will find it difficult to advance U.S. interests in Africa without an understanding of the pressures that tear and bind Nigeria. Despite this, the centrifugal forces that tear at the country and the centripetal forces that have kept it whole are not well understood and rarely examined. After establishing Nigeria¿s importance to the United State as a cohesive and functioning state, this monograph examines the historic, religious, cultural, political, physical, demographic, and economic factors that will determine Nigeria¿s fate. It identifies the specific fault lines along which Nigeria may divide. It concludes with practical policy recommendations for the United States to support Nigerians in their efforts to maintain a functioning and integrated state, and, by so doing, advance U.S. interests.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1139472038
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
Author : Magnus O. Bassey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 1999-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0313003793
The contribution of Western education to the creation of an African-educated elite is well documented. What is not equally well documented is the fact that African-educated elites have used their education and the schools to perpetuate their dominance by denying the poor the knowledge necessary to protect their political and economic rights and to advance in society. On the other hand, educated elites in Africa make opportunities available to their own members through selective ordering, legitimization of certain language forms and learning processes in schools, and legitimization of elite codes and experiences to the exclusion of the histories, experiences, and worldviews of the poor. This book highlights the processes by which the poor in Africa have been disenfranchised and marginalized through schools' ascriptive mechanisms, and explains why African economic development is very slow.
Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107054222
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
