Nigerian Chiefs
Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
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Word Count
77,500 words, Guess
Page Count
310 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9566902M
- ISBN-139781580460408
- ISBN-101580460402
- OCLC Control Number42952767
- OCLC Control Numbernigerianchiefstr0000vaug
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99088099
Classifications
- LCCDT515.45.Y67V38 2000
Description
"Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s analyzes the imaginative adaptation of indigenous political structures to the process of state formation in Nigeria since the imposition of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on the interactions between the state and chieftaincy, this study shows how Nigerian chieftaincy institutions survived both the constricting forces of colonialism and the modernization programs of postcolonial regimes. This was made possible not only because of their adaptability, but also because of their integration with emerging centers of power and their role in the ongoing processes of stratification and class formation. On the other hand, since they were linked to externally derived forces, and legitimated by neotraditional themes, chieftaincy structures were distorted by the indirect rule system and transformed by competing communal claims. Twenty detailed case studies show how chieftaincy structures became a focal point of critical discourses on continuity and social change in twentieth-century Nigeria."--BOOK JACKET.
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