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020			_a9781107286252 (ebook)
020			_z9781107054226 (hardback)
020			_z9781107696662 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aDT515.45.Y67 _bA218 2014
082	0	0	_a320.9669 _223
100	1		_aAdebanwi, Wale, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aYorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria : _bỌbáfemi Awólowo and Corporate Agency / _cWale Adebanwi.
246	3		_aYorùbá Elites & Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (318 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aYorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy. Wale Adebanwi demonstrates how the corporate agency of the elite transformed the modern history and politics of one of Africa's largest ethnic groups, the Yorùbá. The argument is organized around the ideas and cultural representations of Ọbáfemi Awólowo, the central signifier of modern Yorùbá culture. Through the narration and analysis of material, non-material and interactional phenomena - such as political party and ethnic group organization, cultural politics, democratic struggle, personal ambitions, group solidarity, death, memory and commemoration - this book examines the foundations of the legitimacy of the Yorùbá political elite. Using historical sociology and ethnographic research, Adebanwi takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the most powerful and progressive elite groups in Africa, tracing its internal and external struggles for power.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107054226
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107286252
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c36947 _d36947