"The University of the Village": The University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the Making of Post-independence Nigeria
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Stevenson, Russell Wade
نام ساير پديدآوران
Achebe, Nwando
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Michigan State University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2020
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
488 p.
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جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Michigan State University
امتياز متن
2020
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This dissertation examines the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN, the first indigenous university in Nigeria and the first land grant university in Africa. This dissertation argues that UNN represented an innovative experiment in African higher education by expanding higher education to the general populace rather than the colonially privileged elite. However, its construction drew upon patronage politics and taxation regimes that expropriated funding at the same time other regions faced education taxes. Resistance to the University's construction reflected local sentiments of inequitable distribution of tax resources throughout Nigeria's Eastern Region. The University also served as a mechanism in post-independence Nigerian geopolitics: as a mechanism for removing the influence of the British-established University College, Ibadan and British educational models more generally. The University of Nigeria, Nsukka would be, as Taiye Selasi and Achille Mbembe have phrased it, an "Afro-politan" institution-porous and all-encompassing of knowledge systems throughout the globe. During the Nigeria-Biafra war, UNN faced sustained wartime damage-damage from it could not easily recover. The Nigeria-Biafra war laid the groundwork for a period of sustained infrastructural decay and internal resistance, even as the Nigerian federal government enjoyed larger access to oil revenue. This dissertation examines what makes African institutions "indigenous" and how UNN represented the halting transformation from coloniality to indigeneity in the post-independence Nigerian nation-state.
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اصطلاح موضوعی
African history
اصطلاح موضوعی
Education history
اصطلاح موضوعی
Higher education
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