Olufemi Vaughan is the Alfred Sargent Lee ´41 and Mary Ames Lee Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of four books and editor/coeditor of twelve volumes, including Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria (2023), Religion and the Making of Nigeria (2016), and Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources, Vols. I & 2 (2019). A Guggenheim Fellow and Wilson Fellow, Olufemi Vaughan was Professor of Africana Studies and History, and Associate Provost at Stony Brook University, as well as Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies and History at Bowdoin College.
Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics and Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University. His transdisciplinary scholarship focuses on economic and social ethics, African studies, political theory, and philosophy. He is the author of multiple books, including Tranillegalscripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous (2023) and Ethics and Society: Identity, History, Political Theory (2019).
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Nigeria offers an innovative interdisciplinary perspective into Africa´s most populous country.
The handbook investigates the making of Nigeria, by shining a light on five pillars of nationhood within contemporary Nigerian society:
- Polity
- Economy
- Culture
- Education
- Religion
Multidisciplinary in its coverage and bringing together a mix of leading and emerging scholars, this handbook tracks the manifold societal, political and economic developments that have shaped the contemporary Nigerian state. It delves into detailed analyses of the dynamic tensions at play, between regional and national, modern and traditional and stability and change, while also examining how individuals, ideas and movements have brought about transformation. It juxtaposes the country´s modern complexities with investigations into its past in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of twenty-first century Nigeria.
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Nigeria will be essential reading for students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as policymakers or those interested in understanding Nigeria today.
Introduction: The Making of Nigeria and its Unrealized Potentiality Polity 1. State and Society in Nigeria: Politics, Governance, and Development in Historical Perspective 2. Post-Colonial Nigerian State and Society 3. Majoritarian Democracy, the Minority Question and "Becoming-Minoritarian” in Postcolonial Nigeria 4. Political Community and Nationalist Imagination in Nigeria 5. Foreign Policy as Forging of National Identity 6. Unity and Dissension: Nigerian Civil War 7. Nigerian Civil War: National and Global Dimensions Economy 8. Economy and the Making of Nigeria 9. Nigerian Immigrants in a Globalized World 10. Corruption and Underdevelopment of Nigeria 11. Hospitals and Healthcare in Nigeria 12. Yoruba Women, Culture, and Entrepreneurship Culture 13. Writing a Legal History of Gender, Custom, and Criminal Justice in Colonial Southeastern Nigeria 14. Transition to a Post-Oil Nigeria: Youth, Development, Social Justice, and the Environment 15. Sacred Kingship and Collective Identity in Yoruba Society Education 16. English, Pidgin English, and the Making of Nigeria 17. The Chibok Girls: Structural Violence, Gender, and Education in Nigeria´s Northeast 18. Emergence and Management of Islamic Secondary Schools in Northern Nigeria 19. Development of University Education in Northern Nigeria Religion 20. Yorùbá Indigenous Religion in Contemporary Nigeria 21. Religion and Public Health in Nigeria 22. Religious Conflicts and Violence 23. The Globality of Islam: Sharia Movement in Northern Nigeria
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Nigeria offers an innovative interdisciplinary perspective into Africa´s most populous country. The handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as policymakers or those interested in understanding Nigeria today.
