Nigeria’s University Age: Reframing Decolonisation And Development (cambridge Imperial And Post-colonial Studies Series)
by Tim Livsey /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
