List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Nation as Grand Narrataive
Interpretive Theory, Narrative, and the Politics of Meaning
In Search of a Grand Narrative: The Press and the Ethno-Regional
Struggle for Political Independence
Hegemony and Ethno-Spatial Politics: "Nationalizing" the Capital
City in the Late-Colonial Era
Paper Soldiers: Narratives of Nationhood and Federalism in
Pre-Civil War Nigeria
Representing the Nation: Electoral Crisis and the Collapse of the
Third Republic
The "Fought" Republic: The Press, Ethno-Religious Conflicts, and
Democratic Ethos
Narratives, Territoriality, and Majority-Minority Ethnic
Violence
Narratives, Oil, and the Spatial Politics of Marginal
Identities
Conclusion: Beyond Grand Narratives
Notes
Bibliography
Index
WALE ADEBANWI is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016) and editor of The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa (2017).
With its recuperation of the nation as an entity, and its
insistence on the reality of identity politics both as a contested
terrain and as the most meaningful narrative for Nigerian press
history, this book represents a significant landmark in the new
African print cultures scholarship.
*AFRICA*
[A] brilliant combination of the analysis of political history and
the mass media in pre- and post-colonial Nigeria. The book will be
suitable as resource material for students, scholars and
practitioners of political science, history, mass media and
discourse analysis.
*JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES*
This book is an asset to anyone who desires to, as closely as
possible, experience major historical events in Nigerian history.
[It] is a brilliant piece of evidence that there are
non-anthropological methods to unearthing deep understanding of
what exists today in Nigeria. As such, the book is recommended
reading not just for Nigerians and Africans, but also for the
common student of politics.
*PUBLIUS: THE JOURNAL OF FEDERALISM*
This is a thought-provoking book which takes a novel approach to
some of the most fundamental questions facing contemporary Africa.
It deserves a wide readership.
*AFRICAN JOURNALISM STUDIES*
The book represents a major contribution toward understanding the
immensely complex role that newspapers have played in the political
history of postcolonial Africa; it provides a unique and
indispensable reflection on the very specific ways in which
postcolonial societies have approached democracy.
*AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW*
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