Ijeshas and Nigerians: the incorporation of a Yoruba kingdom 1890s-1970s

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Title:	Ijeshas and Nigerians: the incorporation of a Yoruba kingdom 1890s-1970s
Author:	Peel, J.D.Y.
Year:	1983
Issue:	39
Pages:	346
Language:	English
Series:	African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X)
City of publisher:	Cambridge
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	0521225450
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	nation building Ijesa polity
Abstract:	From the dustjacket: 'This social history of Ilesha, a Nigerian town of approximately 180,000 people, once the capital of a small kingdom from the 1890s (when it came under British administration) to the 1970s, sets out to examine how changes in politics, economic production and religious and ethnic identity have occured as a result of Ilesha's incorporation into what came to be Nigeria, and how changes in these different spheres relate to one another. The author pays special attention to the patterns of conflict and cooperation, such as struggles over land and chiefly title, a town riot in 1941 and party politics between 1951 and 1966, which were formed as Ijeshas have pursued their individual and collective goals in this changing scene. He stresses the Ijeshas' own beliefs and aspirations and the important role of their conceptions of the community's part in shaping their present'.