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Emirs in London: Subaltern Travel and Nigeria's Modernity

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Availability:In StockContributor:Moses E. OchonuPublish date:2022-04-05Pages:390
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253059154ISBN-10:253059151UPC:9780253059154Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, International RelationsBook Topic:West, DiplomacySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.261Product ID:SCRHZK3Z8Q

Emirs in London recounts how Northern Nigerian Muslim aristocrats who traveled to Britain between 1920 and Nigerian independence in 1960 relayed that experience to the Northern Nigerian people.

Moses E. Ochonu shows how rather than simply serving as puppets and mouthpieces of the British Empire, these aristocrats leveraged their travel to the heart of the empire to reinforce their positions as imperial cultural brokers, and to translate and domesticate imperial modernity in a predominantly Muslim society.

Emirs in London explores how, through their experiences visiting the heart of the British Empire, Northern Nigerian aristocrats were enabled to define themselves within the framework of the empire. In doing so, the book reveals a unique colonial sensibility that complements rather than contradicts the traditional perspectives of less privileged Africans toward colonialism.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253059154ISBN-10:253059151UPC:9780253059154Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, International RelationsBook Topic:West, DiplomacySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.261Product ID:SCRHZK3Z8Q

Moses E. Ochonu is Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Africa in Fragments: Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity; Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria, which was named finalist for the Herskovits Prize; and Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. He is editor of Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Historical Approach.


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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