... Corruption provides a new optic onto the Nigerian state. Rather than a set of real-world institutions that approximate Western models, the Nigerian state should be seen as an ideological project of labeling the activities of particular actors as being those of “state” officials. The ideological...

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... This chapter analyzes the critical role of religion in the transformation of the Nigerian state and society under successive civilian and military regimes from the attainment of independence in 1960 to the emergence of Nigeria’s fourth civil-democratic government (the Fourth Republic...

... Chapter 2 argues that following the transformation of the Northern Nigerian region by the Sokoto Jihad in the nineteenth century, Islamic structures provided the crucial structural and ideological frameworks on which the British colonial administrative system was rationalized in the Northern...

... This chapter examines the exponential growth of Nigeria’s Pentecostal movement in the context of the political ferment of decolonization in the 1950s, the political upheaval that dominated the Nigerian-Biafra War era in the 1960s and 1970s, and the consequences of neoliberalism since the 1980s...

... Ofeimun as a window onto how moral economies operate, at least in one singularly gifted moral imagination. moral economy Odia Ofeimun memory Corruption provides a new optic onto the Nigerian state. Rather than a set of real-world institutions that approximate Western models, the Nigerian...

...Militarism's Legal Forms During colonial rule, Nigerian law had been a roan institution that mixed English common law with the traditional forms of “village” law that the British called “custom.” The civilian governments that ruled Nigeria in its first years of independence opposed custom...

... undermining officials’ incomes and providing them with new means of improper enrichment. In this context, accusations of “corruption” were used as a way for British officials to condemn Nigerians, but only sometimes. During the earliest years of colonial rule, these malpractices could be characterized...

... 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...

... constitutional and political issues such as the implications of expanded sharia for a secular Nigerian state, a plural Nigerian society, and citizenship rights for women and religious minorities. Through this prism of sharia politics, the chapter reveals how a deep structural divide between Hausa-Fulani Muslim...

... After World War II, successive Nigerian constitutions brought increasing degrees of internal self-rule. Emirate governance gradually lost direct administrative authority to other institutions. The personnel of the native authorities were eclipsed by officials of the secular state. At the same...