"Civil Disorder Is the Disease of Ibadan": Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City

From: African Studies Review | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Reynolds, Jonathan T | Copyright information

Ruth Watson. "Civil Disorder Is the Disease of Ibadan": Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xii + 180 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper.

"The past is always political" is a phrase I often invoke in class when discussing both the way history is debated and how our understanding of the past informs our present. Few books highlight this reality more effectively than Watson's study of politics and history in ...

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