... This chapter argues that the convergence of two major world and regional religious movements—the Islamic reformist movement that established the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria and the Christian evangelical movement in Atlantic Southern Nigeria—provided the social and political platform...

... Nigeria Protectorate in the first half of the twentieth century. The chapter also explores how colonial rule set the framework for Muslim and Christian collective political action in this vast region by the end of the Second World War, when the British authorities embarked on a process of decolonization...

... The chapter explores the contradictory impact of mission Christianity on colonial Northern and Southern Nigeria. It contends that in the Northern Nigerian Protectorate mission Christianity provided a formidable framework in which non-Muslim minority communities articulated strategies to resist...

... Focusing on political and legal reforms in the Northern Nigerian Protectorate and the regionalization of state power in Nigeria’s three emergent regional administrative units, the Northern, Eastern, and Western Regions, this chapter explores the consolidation of Hausa-Fulani Muslim power during...

...Corruption, Nigeria, and the Moral Imagination A paradox to taking a culturalist approach to corruption is that the various moral discourses critiquing it cannot be reduced to a mechanical set of principles allowing one to conclude particular actions are right or wrong. How does one...