num_pages: 281
description: Examines political development during the terminal phase of indirect rule by aristocratic emirates in Northern Nigeria, covering the period of decolonization during the 1950s and early independence in the 1960s to the military coup of 1967. Focuses on the emirs' perception of political and institutional changes and their mechanisms of survival. Demonstrates how the British colonial administration obstructed all challenges to the local emirate system and shows how, despite the attempt to suppress dissent, a small group of Western- educated elites put pressure on the administration to reform the vast powers of the emirate aristocracies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: An Aristocracy in Political Crisis: The End of Indirect Rule and the Emergence of Party Politics in the Emirates of Northern Nigeria
titlecomplete: An Aristocracy in Political Crisis: The End of Indirect Rule and the Emergence of Party Politics in the Emirates of Northern Nigeria (Making of Modern Africa)
publisher: Avebury