Ifra Nigeria imprint: 20 books

by A.I. Asiwaju, Daniel C. Bach
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

The views and perspectives adopted by A.I. Asiwaju and D. Bach appear sufficiently distinct, yet they converge on several key issues: i.e., the informal achievement of regionalization in Africa through kinship and other non-state networks; the resistance of Africans to boundaries inherited from the...

Afrobeat!

Fela and the Imagined Continent

by Sola Olorunyomi
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013

IN AFROBEAT! A POPULAR ARTIST, a counter-hegemonic activist of the hardest grain, meets his most cerebral, disquisitional interpreter. – ODIA OFEIMUN, Leading African poet and former President, Association of Nigerian Authors. This is not just another addition to a growing Fela scholarship but a...
by Ayodeji Olukoju
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013

This book is the first comprehensive analysis on the history of infrastructural development and urban policies in Lagos since the colonial annexation to date. I think that the author faced almost three challenges to write it. It was necessary to consider a long term analysis (one century and a half),...
by Wole Soyinka
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013

The ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ does not of course aspire to the mystification tendencies of most ideological tracts — including the religious. It is a straightforward, humanist statement of rights, one that is transcendental only in the sense that it does transcend all ideological...
by Rasheed Olaniyi
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013

Kano is a city where a multi-layered form of community policing was established in the era of the rollback of the state in social provisioning in the midst of ever-increasing armed banditry and crime. Between 1985 and 2005, vigilante groups were established in almost all the neighbourhoods of Kano...

The Comfort of Strangers

The Impact of Rwandan Refugees in Neighbouring Countries

by Jinmi Adisa
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

The Comfort of Strangers gives detailed information on the background to the Rwandan refugee problem and a vivid portrayal of the effects of the mass exodus of Rwandans into Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Zaire. The global community has, over the past eighty years, put in place an international refugee...
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