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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria - Olufemi Vaughan

Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria

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Buch | Hardcover
282 Seiten
2023
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-34450-4 (ISBN)
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Letter writing was a dominant form of communication for Western-educated elites in colonial Africa, especially in Nigeria. Through textual analysis and broad contextualization, Vaughan reconstructs dominant storylines, including kinship, social mobility, Western education, and elite consolidation in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria.
In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 and 1994. The people who wrote these letters had emerged from the religious, social, and educational institutions established by the Church Missionary Society, the preeminent Anglican mission in the Atlantic Nigerian region following the imposition of British colonial rule. Abiodun, recruited to be a civil servant in the colonial Department of Agriculture, became a leader of a prominent family in Ibadan, the dominant Yoruba city in southern Nigeria. Reading deeply in these letters, Vaughan realized he had a unique set of sources to illuminate everyday life in modern Nigeria.

Letter writing was a dominant form of communication for Western-educated elites in colonial Africa, especially in Nigeria. Exposure to the modern world and a growing sense of nationalism were among the factors that led people to begin exchanging letters, particularly in their interactions with British colonial authorities. Through careful textual analysis and broad contextualization, Vaughan reconstructs dominant storylines, including themes such as kinship, social mobility, Western education, modernity, and elite consolidation in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria. Vaughan brings his prodigious skills as an interdisciplinary scholar to bear on this wealth of information, bringing to life a portrait, at once intimate and expansive, of a community during a transformative period in African history.

Olufemi Vaughan, the Alfred Sargent Lee ’41 and Mary Farley Ames Lee Professor and Chair of Black Studies at Amherst College, is the author of Religion and the Making of Nigeria, among other works.

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Adesoji Adelaja
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Brothers’ Letters
2. The Matriarchs’ Letters
3. Ibadan CMS Men: Kinship and Yoruba Civic Public
4. The Gladys Aduke Vaughan Files
5. From Freetown with Love
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Verlagsort Wisconsin
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-299-34450-9 / 0299344509
ISBN-13 978-0-299-34450-4 / 9780299344504
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