Emirs in London

Subaltern Travel and Nigeria's Modernity

Moses E. Ochonu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

390 Seiten

2022
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-05915-4 (ISBN)

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Emirs in London recounts how Northern Nigerian Muslim aristocrats who traveled to Britain between 1920 and Nigerian independence in 1960 relayed that experience to the Northern Nigerian people.

Moses E. Ochonu shows how rather than simply serving as puppets and mouthpieces of the British Empire, these aristocrats leveraged their travel to the heart of the empire to reinforce their positions as imperial cultural brokers, and to translate and domesticate imperial modernity in a predominantly Muslim society.

Emirs in London explores how, through their experiences visiting the heart of the British Empire, Northern Nigerian aristocrats were enabled to define themselves within the framework of the empire. In doing so, the book reveals a unique colonial sensibility that complements rather than contradicts the traditional perspectives of less privileged Africans toward colonialism.

Moses E. Ochonu is Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Africa in Fragments: Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity; Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria, which was named finalist for the Herskovits Prize; and Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. He is editor of Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Historical Approach.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Traveling and Writing the Metropole in the Age of Modernity
1. Literacy, Narrative, and the Colonial Ideational Space
2. Emir Dikko's Metropolitan Adventures
3. Emirs in Britain
4. The Dikko-Nagogo British Connection
5. Metropolitan Travel and Utilitarian Literacy
6. Deepening Imperial Exploration, Imagining the Postcolony
Epilogue: The Persistent, Evolving Fraternities of Empire
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.02.2022
Zusatzinfo	21 Illustrations, black and white; 9 Maps
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-253-05915-1 / 0253059151
ISBN-13	978-0-253-05915-4 / 9780253059154
Zustand	Neuware