Identities, Histories and Values in Postcolonial Nigeria
By (Author) Adeshina Afolayan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Rowman & Littlefield International
3rd February 2021
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Colonialism and imperialism
African history
966.905
Hardback
276
Width 164mm, Height 228mm, Spine 21mm
553g
This volume interrogates some of the multiple ideas and issues that define the shape of postcolonial Nigeria.
Postcolonial Nigeria has been the subject of many literatures that identify and interrogate the many issues and problems that had made it near impossible for Nigerians to achieve the anticolonial aspirations that gave birth to independent Nigeria. The rationale for this volume is to situate the thematic inquiry into the problematic of postcolonial Nigerian within the ambit of the humanities and its concerns. These thematic issues include identity configurations, aesthetics, philosophical reflections, linguistic dynamics, sociological framings, and so on. The objective of the volume is to enable scholars and students to have new insights and arguments about possibilities that postcoloniality throws up for rethinking the Nigerian state and society.
Adeshina Afolayan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.