Beyond the boundaries
Subtitle: Toyin Falola and the art of genre bending
By: edited by Nana Akua Amponsah
Contributors: Searing, James F.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 790
ISBN-13: 9781592219469; 9781592219476
Subjects: Influence; Historiography; Economic conditions; Social conditions
Work titles: Beyond the boundaries (Africa World Press)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: doomu Ibadan  -- James F. Searing; title: Introduction: beyond the boundaries: Toyin Falola and the art of genre-bending  -- Nana Akua Amponsah -- Part One: Toyin Falola within African historiography; title: Path to stardom: the early career of professor Toyin Falola  -- Adebayo Oyebade; title: Omo Ibadan on Ibadan: the secret of a genius  -- Bola Dauda; title: A mouth sweeter than salt: epistemic reconstructions, memory and methodological systems in African cultures  -- Tushabe wa Tushabe; title: Naked and made ashamed: Oke'Badan and the retrogression of modernity  -- Abimbola Adelakun; title: Contextualizing African art history: the lion as historian  -- Dele Jegede; title: The power of words: scoundrel, values, and meaning in the context of African historiography  -- Bessie House-Soremekun; title: The power of African cultures: creative crusaders and their imaginations of an African state  -- Aderonke Adesola Adesanya; title: Fluid representations of women in Etches on fresh water  -- Hallie Ringle; title: Toyin Falola's contributions to the economic history of Nigeria  -- Ezekiel Walker; title: Falola and economic transnationalism, globalization, and the postcolonial state in Africa  -- Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, Jr.; title: From slavery to globalization: Falola's Africa's economic history  -- Sati Fwatshak; title: Toyin Falola and the history of nineteenth-century Yorubaland  -- Akinwumi Ogundiran; title: Digging below the surface and reaching for the rich ores: negotiating Falola's historicism and reconstructing the provenance of dress in Yorubaland  -- Oyeniyi Bukola Adeyemi; title: Sub-Saharan synthesis: Toyin Falola and the historiography of African decolonization  -- R. Joseph Parrott -- Part two: engaging the past in the present: emerging ideas and research issues; title: Gender and jobs in the making of a colonial economy  -- Bridget A. Teboh; title: Colonialism, disability, and welfare in Nigeria, 1900-1954  -- Uyilawa Usuanlele; title: The World Bank, British treasury, and the financing of the Bornu railway extension in colonial Nigeria  -- Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola; title: "Caging" Nigeria's minorities: the British and the 1957 Minority Commission  -- Michael V/ickers; title: Anioma (western Igboland) on the eve of the Nigerian civil war  -- Daniel Olisa Iweze; title: The Igala phenomenon in the Niger-Benue confluence: recent ethno-historical and archaeological work at Idah, north central Nigeria  -- Aribidesi A. Usman; title: Owe, Bunu and Ijumu inter-group relations since the nineteenth century  -- Paul Ilesanni Akanmidu; title: Globalization and changing socio-economic patterns in Cameroon  -- Emmanuel Mbah; title: Cultural identity for effective global participation  -- Emmanuel Babatunde; title: Imperial language from Babel to pentecost: Achebe's dead men's path as negotiation of presences on the verandahs of the global forum  -- Liwhu Betiang; title: Local government councils and tax administration in Nigeria  -- Festus Imuetinyan; title: From outside looking in: a view of fundamental issues relating to Nigerian higher education from the critical eye of the diaspora  -- Michael O. Afoláyan, Emmanuel S. Eneyo, Benjamin Akíntúndé Oyètádé; title: Reformulating participation in Nigerien development programs: an examination of conflicting messages concerning gender and class  -- Kari B. Henquinet; title: A philosophical analysis of Yemoja in cross cultural context  -- Segun Ogungbemi and Benson O. Igboin; title: Conceptualizing the Yemoja phenomenon in contemporary Yoruba worldview  -- Sunday Layi Oladipupo; title: An analysis of Yemoja phenomenon and Christian thought  -- Benson O. Igboin; title: The account and relevance of Awon mass wedding traditional festival in a typical Yoruba community  -- Adelowo Felix Adetunji; title: The linguistic form and computation system of numerals in Yoruba and Ekiromi: a comparison -- Francis O. Oyebade and Taiwo O. Agoyi.