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Nigeria's University Age : Reframing Decolonisation and Development.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137565051
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 378.669
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Contents:
Intro -- Nigeria's University Age -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Nigeria's University Age -- University Contexts -- Development -- Decolonisation -- Sources -- Chapters -- 2 An Imperial Frame: Universities and the West African Roots of Colonial Development -- Before the Elliot Commission -- The Elliot Commission in Action -- 3 Paradoxes of Decolonisation: University College Ibadan and the Late Colonial State -- Lecturers and the Second Colonial Occupation -- Autonomy -- Nigerianisation -- 'Special Relations' -- Debating University Finance -- 4 Making Modern Space: Architecture and Decolonisation at University College Ibadan -- Expectations of Modern Space -- Modern Architecture and Late Colonialism -- Development and Forms of Expertise -- University Space and Decolonisation -- Debates about University Space -- 5 An Incomplete Elite: Student Culture, Everyday Life, and Decolonisation at Ibadan -- Meet the Students -- Students and Lecturers -- Ibadan students and the Imperial Frame -- Alternative Frames -- The 1957 'Fence Incident' -- Student Culture and Independence -- 6 Multilateral Negotiations: Nigerian Universities, the United States, and the Cold War -- The Roots of Nigeria's Second University -- The Carnegie Corporation and the Ashby Commission -- Nsukka and Ashby: Consensus? -- Independence and University Development -- 7 Breakdown: University Development and the Nigerian Crises -- Renegotiating the Ashby Report -- Ethno-Politics at Ibadan -- Ethno-Politics at Regional Universities -- Crisis at the University of Lagos, 1965 -- Foreign Assistance and Growing Doubts -- Breakdown: Ibadan and Nsukka -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Interviews.
Published Reports and Conference Proceedings -- Newspapers and Magazines -- Secondary Sources -- Online Resources -- Index.
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Intro -- Nigeria's University Age -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Nigeria's University Age -- University Contexts -- Development -- Decolonisation -- Sources -- Chapters -- 2 An Imperial Frame: Universities and the West African Roots of Colonial Development -- Before the Elliot Commission -- The Elliot Commission in Action -- 3 Paradoxes of Decolonisation: University College Ibadan and the Late Colonial State -- Lecturers and the Second Colonial Occupation -- Autonomy -- Nigerianisation -- 'Special Relations' -- Debating University Finance -- 4 Making Modern Space: Architecture and Decolonisation at University College Ibadan -- Expectations of Modern Space -- Modern Architecture and Late Colonialism -- Development and Forms of Expertise -- University Space and Decolonisation -- Debates about University Space -- 5 An Incomplete Elite: Student Culture, Everyday Life, and Decolonisation at Ibadan -- Meet the Students -- Students and Lecturers -- Ibadan students and the Imperial Frame -- Alternative Frames -- The 1957 'Fence Incident' -- Student Culture and Independence -- 6 Multilateral Negotiations: Nigerian Universities, the United States, and the Cold War -- The Roots of Nigeria's Second University -- The Carnegie Corporation and the Ashby Commission -- Nsukka and Ashby: Consensus? -- Independence and University Development -- 7 Breakdown: University Development and the Nigerian Crises -- Renegotiating the Ashby Report -- Ethno-Politics at Ibadan -- Ethno-Politics at Regional Universities -- Crisis at the University of Lagos, 1965 -- Foreign Assistance and Growing Doubts -- Breakdown: Ibadan and Nsukka -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Interviews.

Published Reports and Conference Proceedings -- Newspapers and Magazines -- Secondary Sources -- Online Resources -- Index.

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