1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Nigeria
Introduction: The Making of Nigeria and its Unrealized Potentiality
Nimi Wariboko & Olufemi Vaughan
Polity
1. State and Society in Nigeria: Politics, Governance, and Development in Historical Perspective
Olufemi Vaughan
2. Post-Colonial Nigerian State and Society
Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare
3. Majoritarian Democracy, the Minority Question and “Becoming-Minoritarian” in Postcolonial Nigeria
Adeshina Afolayan
4. Political Community and Nationalist Imagination in Nigeria
Oluwatosin Orimolade
5. Foreign Policy as Forging of National Identity
Uzo Emenike
6. Unity and Dissension: Nigerian Civil War
Egodi Uchendu & Emmanuel Eyeh
7. Nigerian Civil War: National and Global Dimensions
Adebayo Oyebade
Economy
8. Economy and the Making of Nigeria
Nimi Wariboko
9. Nigerian Immigrants in a Globalized World
Omotayo Owoeye
10. Corruption and Underdevelopment of Nigeria
Sola Akinrinade
11. Hospitals and Healthcare in Nigeria
Ajovi B. Scott-Emuakpor
12. Yoruba Women, Culture, and Entrepreneurship
Bessie House-Soremekun
Culture
13. Writing a Legal History of Gender, Custom, and Criminal Justice in Colonial Southeastern Nigeria
Yolanda Chinelo Osondu
14. Transition to a Post-Oil Nigeria: Youth, Development, Social Justice, and the Environment
Omolade Adunbi
15. Sacred Kingship and Collective Identity in Yoruba Society
Ayodeji Ogunnaike
Education
16. English, Pidgin English, and the Making of Nigeria
Farooq A. Kperogi
17. The Chibok Girls: Structural Violence, Gender, and Education in Nigeria’s Northeast
Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome
18. Emergence and Management of Islamic Secondary Schools in Northern Nigeria
Umar Muhammad
19. Development of University Education in Northern Nigeria
Umar Muhammad
Religion
20. Yorùbá Indigenous Religion in Contemporary Nigeria
Olúwábùnmi Tope Bernard
21. Religion and Public Health in Nigeria
Abiodun Alao
22. Religious Conflicts and Violence
Simeon O. Ilesanmi
23. The Globality of Islam: Sharia Movement in Northern Nigeria
Paul Lubeck, Ronnie Lipschutz, and Erik Weeks
Biography
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 Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous (2023) and Ethics and Society: Identity, History, Political Theory (2019).
