Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique - Nigeria

Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria

2013-05-20T07:54:11Z

Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria explores and analyses the underlying sources and salient features of recent ethnic minority conflicts in Nigeria, the largely controversial policies by which the Nigerian state has sought to contain these conflicts, and the prospects and preconditions for a more stable and equitable system of federal governance in the country. Through an insightful examination of two most recent minority conflicts in the country, the author probes the (...) - African dynamics

Informal Channels for Conflict Resolution in Ibadan, Nigeria

2013-05-20T07:50:57Z

First lines This is a study of the informal channels of conflict resolution among people living in Ibadan. Although the informal channels of justice are generally preferred by the poor because they cannot afford to hire an attorney, this study has shown that informal channels are often the first choice of citizens who wish to solve their conflicts outside a court of law. Poverty is a global problem, but is more widespread in the developing nations.1 For any society to achieve sustainable (...) - African dynamics

Urban Research in Nigeria

2013-05-20T07:47:10Z

First lines Research Background Nigeria is one of the most urbanized African countries south of the Sahara. Some of Nigeria's urban centres have a history which dates back to antiquity. Indeed, a great deal of research exists on the urban environment in Nigeria, but it has never been compiled into a comprehensive reference book. The bulk of studies done on the urban environment is in the form of journal articles and university-based theses and dissertations or government reports. As a (...) - African dynamics

A Dangerous Awakening: The Politicization of Religion in Nigeria

2013-05-20T07:43:46Z

Students of religion and interested observers of politics in Africa will cherish this book for providing a thorough analysis of the origin and politics of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). A Dangerous Awakening chronicles the religious clashes in Nigeria, and shows how religion has been used in the struggle for political power. Dr. Enwerem bases his study on interviews and unpublished memos, papers and letters not otherwise accessible to the public. This book is an invaluable (...) - African dynamics

Trends of Migrant Political Organization in Nigeria: The Igbo in Kano

2013-05-20T07:40:44Z

First lines After a long period of neglect and apparent abandonment by many scholars, the study of ethnicity in Nigeria and other parts of Africa has been revived, and with as much vigor as that which attended its ascendancy in African studies in the 1960s. The reasons for the reawakening are not surprising: economic depression and consequent migration have forced people back to interest-begotten weapons like ethnicity, in the desperate struggle to survive; democratic processes have (...) - African dynamics

The Frontier States of Western Yorubaland: State Formation and Political Growth in an Ethnic Frontier Zone

2013-05-20T07:37:15Z

First lines In West Africa, as elsewhere in the world, ethnic boundaries are not easy to fix. Constant population expansion and the resultant socio-cultural contacts among different ethnic groups often frustrate such attempts; and it becomes difficult to decide where one ethnic group begins and where another ends. This problem is particularly difficult in a ‘frontier zone' where two or more ethnic groups overlap and where inter-ethnic contacts over a fairly long time have blurred the ethnic (...) - African dynamics

Urban Violence in Africa : Pilot Studies (South Africa, Côte-d'Ivoire, Nigeria)

2013-05-19T15:16:37Z

First words This study has moderate objectives. It uses existing perspectives on violence in general, as a background for focusing on violence in the urban context. The major thesis is that towns and cities, as the hubs of political, economic and social processes, as well as social change, provide the locale for analysing the usually complex and interrelated forms of violence. The structural and spatial inequalities often found in towns, and the growth of slums and un-and underemployed (...) - African dynamics

Nigerian Art Music

2013-05-19T15:10:28Z

ART MUSIC IN NIGERIA is the most comprehensive book on the works of modem Nigerian composers who have been influenced by European classical music. Relying on over 500 scores, archival materials and interviews with many Nigerian composers, the author traces the historical developments of this new idiom in Nigeria and provides a critical and detailed analysis of certain works. Written in a refreshing and lucid style and amply illustrated with music examples, the book represents a milestone in (...) - Africas: languages, history and arts

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: English, French, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba

2013-05-19T15:07:21Z

First words At the height of a campaign to make Kishwahili the common language for the black African continent, I was asked — by a very committed ideologue — just what contribution such a language policy distraction had to offer to the far more urgent revolutionary struggle of African neo-colonial societies. That was easy enough. "For one thing", I replied, "it would put an end to the mystification which is constantly embedded in the very kind of question you have posed. It will compel you (...) - Africas: languages, history and arts

Transfrontier Regionalism. The Revival of Regional Integration in Africa

2013-05-19T15:02:33Z

The Frontiers of Regionalization in Africa It is a great honour for me to introduce the new format of the IFRA occasional publication series with A. I. Asiwaju and D. Bach, two of the most authoritative scholars on the subject of boundaries and regional integration in Africa. Both authors addressed the monthly seminar series of the French Institute for Research in Africa at the University of Ibadan in 1998. I took the liberty of putting their papers together for a joint publication (...) - Transnational Africas

The Comfort of Strangers: The Impact of Rwandan Refugees in Neighbouring Countries

2013-05-19T14:59:07Z

The Comfort of Strangers gives detailed information on the background to the Rwandan refugee problem and a vivid portrayal of the effects of the mass exodus of Rwandans into Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Zaire. The global community has, over the past eighty years, put in place an international refugee regime to regularize the status and provide for the control of stateless people ail over the world. Although host communities may initially open their doors to large numbers of people fleeing (...) - Transnational Africas