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Author:

Beyond the boundaries (Africa World Press)

Title:

Beyond the boundaries : Toyin Falola and the art of genre-bending / edited by Nana Akua Amponsah.

Publisher:

Africa World Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxviii, 790 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Falola, Toyin.
Falola, Toyin--Influence.
Africa--Historiography.
Nigeria--Economic conditions.
Nigeria--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

Amponsah, Nana Akua, editor of compilation.
Searing, James F. Doomu Ibadan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The power of African cultures: creative crusaders and their imaginations of an African state / Bessie House-Soremekun; Poem: Oranmiyan's gift / Michael Vickers -- Introduction: beyond the boundaries: Toyin Falola and the art of genre-bending / Nana Akua Amponsah -- 7. Toyin Falola Within African Historiography: 1. Path to stardom: the early career of professor Toyin Falola / Adebayo Oyebade; 2. Omo Ibadan on Ibadan: the secret of a genius / Bola Dauda; 3. A mouth sweeter than salt: epistemic reconstructions, memory and methodological systems in African cultures / Tushabe wa Tushabe; 4. Naked and made ashamed: Oke'Badan and the retrogression of modernity / Abimbola Adelakun; 5. Contextualizing African art history: the lion as historian / Dele Jegede; 6. The power of words: scoundrel, values, and meaning in the context of African historiography / Bessie House-Soremekun; 7. The power of African cultures: creative crusaders and their imaginations of an African state /
Bridget A. Teboh; 15. Gender and jobs in the making of a colonial economy / Hallie Ringle; 9. Toyin Falola's contributions to the economic history of Nigeria / Ezekiel Walker; 10. Falola and economic transnationalism, globalization, and the postcolonial state in Africa / Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, Jr.; 11. From the indigeous economy to globalization: Falola's Africa's economic history / Sati Fwatshak; 12. Toyin Falola and the history of nineteenth-century Yorubaland / Akinwumi Ogundiran; 13. Digging below the surface and reaching for the rich ores: negotiating Falola's historicism and reconstructing the provenance of dress in Yorubaland / Oyeniyi Bukola Adeyemi; 14. Sub-Saharan synthesis: Toyin Falola and the historiography of African decolonization / R. Joseph Parrott -- Part Two. Engaging the Past in the Present: Emerging Ideas and Research Issues: 15. Gender and jobs in the making of a colonial economy / Bridget A. Teboh;
24. Cultural identity for effective global participation / Emmanuel Babatunde; 18. The World Bank, British treasury, and the financing of the Bornu railway extension in colonial Nigeria / Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola; 18. "Caging" Nigeria's minorities: the British and the 1957 Minority Commission / Michael V/ickers; 19. Anioma (western Igboland) on the eve of the Nigerian civil war / Daniel Olisa Iweze; 20. The Igala phenomenon in the Niger-Benue confluence: recent ethno-historical and archaeological work at Idah, north central Nigeria / Aribidesi A. Usman; 21. Owe, Bunu and Ijumu inter-group relations since the nineteenth century / Paul Ilesanni Akanmidu; 22. Globalization and changing socio-economic patterns in Cameroon / Emmanuel Mbah; 23. Cultural identity for effective global participation / Emmanuel Babatunde; 24.
An analysis of Yemoja phenomenon and Christian thought / Benson O. Igboin; 31. Local government councils and tax administration in Nigeria / Festus Imuetinyan; 26. From the outside looking in: a view of fundamental issues relating to Nigerian higher education from the critical eye of the diaspora / Michael O. Afol©Łyan, Emmanuel S. Eneyo, Benjamin Ak©Ưnt©ðnd©♭ Oy©·t©Łd©♭; 27. Reformulating participation in Nigerien development programs: an examination of conflicting messages concerning gender and class / Kari B. Henquinet; 28. A philosophical analysis of Yemoja in cross cultural context / Segun Ogungbemi and Benson O. Igboin; 29. Conceptualizing the Yemoja phenomenon in contemporary Yoruba worldview / Sunday Layi Oladipupo; 30. An analysis of Yemoja phenomenon and Christian thought / Benson O. Igboin; 31.
The linguistic form and computation system of numerals in Yoruba and Ekiromi: a comparison / Francis O. Oyebade and Taiwo O. Agoyi. 32. The linguistic form and computation system of numerals in Yoruba and Ekiromi: a comparison / Francis O. Oyebade and Taiwo O. Agoyi.

ISBN:

1592219470 (pbk.)
9781592219476 (pbk.)
1592219462 (hard cover)
9781592219469 (hard cover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)852732324

LCCN:

2013031969

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)