Precolonial Nigeria : essays in honor of Toyin Falola / edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran.

Other author Falola, Toyin.
Other author Ogundiran, Akinwumi.
Format Book
Publication InfoTrenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2005.
Descriptionxi, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Nigeria--History. --To 1851.
Nigeria--Antiquities.

Contents I. Introduction. Themes and directions in the history of precolonial Nigeria / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Toyin Falola and the history of nineteenth century Yorubaland / Akinwumi Ogundiran. II. Early Foundations. Early agricultural societies : innovations in technology and economy before AD 100 / Raphael Alabi -- Groundwork of human occupation in the Chad basin, northeast Nigeria, 2000 BC-1000 AD / Peter Breunig -- Metallurgical traditions : origins, technology and social implications / David Aremu. III. Polities and institutions. State formation in precolonial Nigeria : a historiographic assessment / Osarhieme B. Osadolor and Leo E. Otoide -- Archaeology of Tiv setlements in the Benue Valley and implications for the history of Bantu Homeland / Caleb Adebayo Folorunso -- Igbo civilization : an archaeological and historical ethnographic profile / A. Ikechukwu Okpoko and A. Maduabuchi Ibeanu -- Women, power, and political institution in Igboland / Egodi Uchendu -- Yoruba urbanism : the archaeology and historical ethnography Ile-Ife and Old Oyo / Babatunde Agbaje-Williams -- The Yoruba Palace as court of arbitration / O.B. Olaoba. IV. State, society, and world systems. Precolonial Benin : a political economy perspective / Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Religion, state, and society in Hausaland : history and the politics of incorporation in the Kano chronicle / Shobana Shanka -- Kano : the development of a trading city in central Sudan / Rasheed Olaniyi -- Precoloniao Borgu : its history and culture / Richard Kuba and Olayemi Akinwumi -- Crisis and catastrophe : warfare in precolonial northern Yoruba / Aribidesi Usman -- Uneasy neighbors : Gbagyi and Nupe interactions, 1300-1850 / Sule Mohammed -- Ijo-Itsekiri relations, 1500-1850 / Benjamin Okpevra -- Water transportation in the Niger Delta, 1500-1900 / Edith Osiruemu -- The making of an oligarchy in the Bight of Biafra : perspectives on the Aro ascendency / Pat Uche Okpoko and Paul Obi-Ani -- The Atlantic slave trade and impacts on the Nigerian hinterland, 1500-1900 / Mohammad Bashir Salau. V. Prelude to Colonial Rule. Revolutionary changes in the nineteenth century / Onaiwu W. Ogbomo -- Transformations in the Niger-Benue Confluence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Mailafiya Aruwa Filaba -- Christian missions and religious encounters at the Niger-Benue Confluence / Femi J. Kolapo -- Prelude to the British "Punitive expedition" to Benin : an analysis of the Gallwey Treaty of 1892 / Leo Otoide.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005017494
ISBN1592212182 (hardcover)
ISBN1592212190 (pbk.)

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