This volume interrogates some of the multiple ideas and issues that define the shape of postcolonial Nigeria.
Postcolonial Nigeria has been the subject of many literatures that identify and interrogate the many issues and problems that had made it near impossible for Nigerians to achieve the anticolonial aspirations that gave birth to independent Nigeria. The rationale for this volume is to situate the thematic inquiry into the problematic of postcolonial Nigerian within the ambit of the humanities and its concerns. These thematic issues include identity configurations, aesthetics, philosophical reflections, linguistic dynamics, sociological framings, and so on. The objective of the volume is to enable scholars and students to have new insights and arguments about possibilities that postcoloniality throws up for rethinking the Nigerian state and society.
Introduction: Performing Postcoloniality in Nigeria, Adeshina Afolayan
Part I
Chapter
1. Wole Soyinka: A Public Intellectual, His Publics and Postcolonial
Modernities, Sanya Osha
Chapter
2. Informality and Patriotism in the Nigerian Postcolony, Adeshina
Afolayan
Chapter
3. Ajala as Metaphor of the Nigerian Travel Culture: Myths, Legend
and Memory(-ies) of the African Abroad, Oluwaseun Abimbola
Chapter
4. Language Games and the Inequality of Gender: Feminist
Postproverbials and the Yoruba Language, Olayinka Oyeleye
Chapter
5. Ethnicity and Fluid Identities in Nineteenth Century Lagos, Mary
Aderonke Afolabi
Chapter
6. The Future of Du Bois: Consciousness, Citizenship, and
Epistemology in Nigeria/Africa, Nimi Wariboko
Part II
Chapter
7. Determinism and Human Agency in Shola Allyson-Obaniyis Gbe j
Fori and Akosile, Lawrence O. Bamikole
Chapter
8. Digital Appropriation, Youth Culture and Cybercrime in Emergent
Yoruba Bollywood, Olajide Salawu
Chapter
9. The Other Room: Politics, Sex and Power in Shoneyins The Secret
Lives of Baba Segis Wives, Ofure O. M. Aito and Omolola A. Ladele
Chapter
10. Walking Backwards: Prediction of a Failing Postcolonial Nigeria
in Kunle Afolayans October 1, Abimbola Iyun
Chapter
11. Waka into Bondage: Ndidi Dikes Performance Installation and the
Creative Reenactment of the Badagry Slave Trade Route, Kunle Filani
Chapter
12. Gboju Nbe! Urban Slangs as Sociolinguistic Expressions in
Selected Nollywood Films, Mojisola Shodipe
Chapter
13. New Englishes and Nigerias Linguistic Ecology: Nigerias
Newscasters Stress Pattern as Model for Standard Nigerian English, Julianah
A. Akindele
References
Adeshina Afolayan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
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