Livsey, Tim (2017) Nigeria's University Age: Reframing Decolonisation and Development. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series . Palgrave, London. ISBN 9781137565044
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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.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | L700 Human and Social Geography X300 Academic studies in Education |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Paul Burns |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2019 15:24 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2019 15:24 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/40798 |
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