Ochiai: People, Predicaments and Potentials in A

Takehiko Ochiai, Misa Hirano-Nomoto, Takehiko Ochiai, Misa Hirano-Nomoto, Daniel E. Agbiboa, Takehiko Ochiai, Misa Hirano-Nomoto, Daniel E. Agbiboa

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9789956551675
• eBook ISBN:
  9789956551200
• Edition: 1
• Subtopic: African Politics

The term 'African Potentials' refers to the knowledge, systems, practices, ideas and values created and implemented in African societies that are expected to contribute to overcoming various challenges and promoting people's wellbeing. This collection of articles, focused on African societies, is based on the idea that 'Africa is People'. In this book, African people are placed at the centre of the discussion. The book's contributors, all of whom believe in African people and their potentials, consider women, minors and young people, people with disabilities, entrepreneurs, herders, farmers, mine workers, refugees, migrants, traditional rulers, militiamen and members of the political elite, and examine their predicaments and potentials in detail. Africa is people, and African potentials can be found only in African people themselves.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Notes on Contributors
• Contents
• Series Preface. African Potentials for Convivial World-Making
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction. Africa is People
• Part I - Potentials in the Everyday
• Part II - Potentials for Survival
• Part III - Politics and Potentials in Nigeria
• Chapter 9. African ‘Kings’ and Globalisation: Chieftaincy and Transnational Mobility among Igbo Migrants in Japan
• Chapter 10. The 200-Year War: Anthropological Dimensions of Nigeria’s Pastoralist–Horticulturalist Politics
• Chapter 11. Reforming Federalism: Military Rule, Institutional Engineering and the National Question in Nigeria
• Index
• Back cover