Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-97812-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 362 g

Reihe: African Studies

This is the first comprehensive study of leftist ideology and movements and their organizational structure in colonial and post colonial Nigeria. Tijani moves the contributions of Nigerian leftists from the archival centers into mainstream intellectual and nationalist history, proving the first historical narrative of the unsung heroes of the Nigerian nationalist movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tijani, Hakeem Ibikunle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ABBREVIATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

CHAPTER ONE: THE PREAMBLE

CHAPTER TWO: IDEOLOGY OF THE LEFT

CHAPTER THREE: RECONSTRUCTING THE ZIKIST MOVEMENT

CHAPTER FOUR: MARXISM DURING THE 1950s

CHAPTER FIVE: PROFILING NIGERIAN MARXISTS
CHAPTER SIX: "NIGERIA-MCCARTHYISM"

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, AND THE NIGERIAN MARXISTS,

CHAPTER EIGHT: EMBATTLED LEFTISTS: LATE 1950S TO 1965

CHAPTER NINE: CONCLUSION: ASSESSING MARXISM FAILURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani, PhD, is currently an associate professor of African and African Diaspora History at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. He was a Commonwealth scholar at SOAS, University of London and a recipient of the prestigious U.S. Military National Merit Award, 2003. He has received research grants from Harry Truman Library and Institute, the MacMath Endowment Foundation, and Henderson State University Faculty Development. His most recent grant is from the American Historical Association 2005 Schmitt Research Award. He is the editor of Nigeria's Urban History: Past and Present, Oxford, 2006.