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Auteur(s) : Livsey, Tim
Titre(s) : Nigeria's university age [Texte imprimé] : reframing decolonisation and development / Tim Livsey
Publication : London : Palgrave Macmillan, copyright [2017]
Description matérielle : xiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection : Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Lien à la collection : Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series (Print)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-272) and index
"This book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective
on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using
political, cultural and spatial approaches, the book shows that Nigerians and foreign
donors alike saw the nation's new universities as vital institutions: a means to educate
future national leaders, drive economic growth, and make a modern Nigeria. Universities
were vibrant places, centres of nightlife, dance, and the construction of spectacular
buildings, as well as teaching and research. At universities, students, scholars,
visionaries, and rebels considered and contested colonialism, the global Cold War,
and the future of Nigeria. University life was shaped by, and formative to, experiences
of development and decolonisation. The book will be of interest to historians of Africa,
empire, education, architecture, and the Cold War."
Sujet(s) : Enseignement supérieur -- Nigeria -- 20e siècle
University of Ibadan -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781137565044. - ISBN 1137565047. - ISBN 9781137565051 (erroné). - ISBN 1137565055
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45500390n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45500390
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction. Nigeria's university age ; Imperial frame : universities and the West
African roots of colonial development ; Paradoxes of decolonisation : University
College Ibadan and the late colonial state ; Making modern space : architecture and
decolonisation at University College Ibadan ; An incomplete elite : student culture,
everyday life and decolonisation at Ibadan ; Multilateral negotiations : Nigerian
universities, the United States, and the Cold War ; . Breakdown : University development
and the Nigerian crises ; Conclusion.
