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Title: | Self-assertion and brokerage: early cultural nationalism in West Africa |
Editors: | Moraes Farias, P.F. de Barber, Karin |
Year: | 1990 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 242 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Birmingham University African studies series |
City of publisher: | Birmingham |
Publisher: | University of Birmingham, Centre of West African Studies |
ISBN: | 0704410966 |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | national culture nationalism elite |
Abstract: | This volume on the role of members of the African élite as cultural brokers in colonial West Africa starts with two life stories: the story of Adegboyega?dun, an educated and politically active Yoruba?gba man, by A. Pallinder, and the story of Nnamdi Azikiwe ('Zik'), the first President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by E. Tonkin. In the second part, 'Constructions of the past', T.C. McCaskie discusses two documents which are crucial to an understanding of the constructions placed upon the nature of Asante history and culture by the ruling Oyoko Koko dynasty of Kumase, and by certain members of the 20th century Asante élite; R. Jenkins deals with the Southern Coastal or Christian versions of the Ghanaian past; R. Law compares the treatment of African culture and history by Edward Blyden and Samuel Johnson; M.R. Doortmont deals with the invention of 'ethnic identities' in the case of the Yoruba; and P.F. de Moraes Farias calls attention to the influence of Muslim discourses on Yoruba identity. In part 3, 'Popular cultural mediation', W. Glinga describes the contradictory role of the African soldier (tirailleur sénégalais) in the French colonial army; F. Harding examines the use of dramatization in the formulation of Tiv ethnic and national consciousness; and K. Barber analyses discursive strategies in the texts of Ifá and in the 'Holy Book of Odù' of the African Church of?`rúnmìlà. |