Nigeria’s University Age Reframing Decolonisation and Development
November 2017
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Book
This book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s.
History
Imagining an Imperial Modernity: Universities and the West African Roots of Colonial Development
November 2016
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Journal article
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The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Imagining an imperial modernity: Universities and the West African roots of colonial development
August 2016
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Journal article
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Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
This article takes the formation and work of the ‘Elliot’ Commission on Higher Education in West Africa (1943–45) to reconsider the roots of British colonial development. Late colonial universities were major development projects, although they have rarely been considered as such. Focusing particularly on the Nigerian experience and the controversy over Yaba Higher College (founded 1934), the article contends that late colonial plans for universities were not produced in Britain and then exported to West African colonies. Rather, they were formed through interactions between agendas and ideas with roots in West Africa, Britain and elsewhere. These debates exhibited asymmetries of power but produced some consensus about university development. African and British actors conceptualised modern education by combining their local concerns with a variety of supra-local geographical frames for development, which included the British Empire and the individual colony. The British Empire did not in this case forestall development, but shaped the ways in which development was conceived.
‘Suitable lodgings for students’: modern space, colonial development and decolonization in Nigeria
November 2014
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Journal article
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Urban History
33 Built Environment and Design, 3304 Urban and Regional Planning
The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History JohnParkerRichardReidThe Oxford Handbook of Modern African History2013Oxford University PressOxfordxxii + 536, £95 hardcover
October 2014
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Other
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Journal of Historical Geography
44 Human Society, 4406 Human Geography, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 5002 History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields
Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World, 1850–1939, by Tamson Pietsch
August 2014
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Other
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The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
HOW TO WRITE THE HISTORY OF ORGANISED CRIME, Birkbeck, 9 June 2011.
October 2011
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Other
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History Workshop Journal
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology