81. Film And Video Resources For African Studies: Catalogue Keywords Nigeria, ijo, ritual, women, marriage vast mineral resources, while theindigenous people have and the many social problems which the peoples of South http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/IAS/filmcat.htm

The Institute of African Studies Emory University Film and Video Resources for African Studies: Film and Video Catalogue This section of the catalogue lists titles from the main Film and Video Catalogue of Emory's holdings for African Studies. The catalogue also includes sections that list New Acquisitions to Emory's collections since September 1999 and titles that are currently On Order Film and Video Catalogue About the United Nations (videocassette: 15 min.) [1990] V. CASS. VHS 1839 Across the Frontiers (2 videocassettes: 52 min.) [1976] V. CASS. 63 Abstract: An overview summarizing the other six programs in this series, particularly noting the westernization of some tribal cultures and a new awakening of ancient tradition among many tribes. Includes material on Dogon. Keywords: overview, social change, history. Africa (4 videocassettes: 114 minutes/ea) [1984] V. CASS. VHS 2088 Abstract: Gives a history of Africa from many locations showing life as it is today plus archive film and dramatized reconstructions. Keywords: overview, history. Africa: Continent of Contrasts (videocassette: 35 min. + guide) [1994]

82. The Trouble With Nigeria Is Simply And Squarely A Failure Of Major religions, 50% Muslim, 40% Christian, 10% indigenous religions. Hausaspeakingpeoples can be traced back more than a In fact, the ijo people who lived in http://www.uncc.edu/stwalker/nigeria.htm

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. Chinua Achebe Nigeria Size 823,770 km (about twice the size of California) Population growth Infant mortality 69.46 per 1,000 births Life expectancy Literacy Major religions 50% Muslim, 40% Christian, 10% indigenous religions GDP per capita $300, $820 PPP Economic growth Currency $1=95 Naira (29 October 1999) Chapter Outline A New Democracy? Thinking About Nigeria The Evolution of the Nigerian State Political Culture and Participation The Fragile Nigerian State Public Policy and Public Futility Nigeria and the Plight of the Third World A New Democracy? On 29 May 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in as the first president of Nigeria’s newest republic. Like Nelson Mandela’s inauguration in South Africa five years earlier, the world was watching the new government carefully. Nigeria is, after all, Africa’s largest country with over one million people (no one knows for sure how many Nigerians there are, since no census has been conducted for years, for reasons that will become clear later in the chapter). It is also has extensive oil reserves which should also make it one of the richest country’s in Africa. However, as the statement by award-winning novelist, Chinua Achebe, suggests, Nigeria’s history has been plagued by troubles of many sorts. On the day of Obasanjo’s inauguration, most observers focused on the fact that the country had been ruled by the military for more than half of its 39 years as an independent country. And, despite its oil and other natural resources, the average Nigerian was worse off than in 1960 when the country gained its independence.

83. THE PRICE OF OIL federal governments.230 A number of indigenous rulers of 227 Ijaw (sometimes spelledIjo), has four main an alliance with the Northern peoples’ Congress (NPC http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/nigeria/Nigew991-06.htm

VI. OIL COMPANIES AND THE OIL PRODUCING COMMUNITIES The coming of the oil industry has transformed the local economy of the oil producing communities. Although the changes are not as profound as those among previously uncontacted peoples of the Amazon rainforest living in areas where oil has been discovered Minorities in the Oil Producing Regions The peoples living in the oil producing communities largely belong to ethnic groups other than the three major groups (Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa-Fulani) that dominate Nigeria. They speak a diverse range of languages and dialects: at least five major language groups are represented in the delta states. There areestimated to be approximately eight million people (there are no reliable census data) who would describe themselves as Ijaw, largely living in the riverine areas of what are now Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States, as well as in Port Harcourt, Warri, and other towns on dry land. The division between the riverine and upland areas is of major cultural and geopolitical importance in the debates over the rights of the oil areas. Other ethnic groups on dry land in what is now Rivers State include the Ogoni, numbering some 500,000 (themselves divided between four separate dialect groups); several groups speaking languages related to Igbo, including the Etche, Ndoni, and Ikwerre; a number of communities speaking dialects falling into a Central Delta language group; the Andoni, who speak a Lower Cross dialect, and others.

84. Abstracts http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/2002/abstracts.html

NIGERIA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Home Program Featured Speakers Abstracts ... Information March 29-31 2002 A bstracts (In Alphabetical Order) Index by Last Name: A B C D ... H I J K L M ... O P Q R S T U ... W X Y Z To view a participant's bio , click on their name. Participant e-mail addresses can be found by clicking on their name in the bio listing or on the participants page. Some bio links are not yet functional because we have not recieved bio submissions. We will post bios as we recieve them. To submit, change or comment on bios, e-mail africaconference2002@yahoo.com Click here to skip to participant's bio section! Charles W. Abbott Department of Geography, University of Iowa Hometown associations: A key factor in Nigeria's 20th century Akanmu Adebayo Shari'a and States' Rights: Religion and the Resurgence of Federalism in Nigeria in the Third Republic Wale Adebanwi , Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. The Nigerian Press and the Idea of Nigerian Nation (1914-2001) Until recently, the media did not get the deserved attention in the literature of social theory owing to the tendency to neglect - or failure to reflect - the centrality of the media in social and political formations (Thompson, 1994). Now, there is general acknowledgement (though grudging in some cases) in the literature - even if from different and differing perspectives - that the media can enable and constrain the politics of society (Crowley and Mitchell, 1994), particularly if acting in concert with other social forces. This has pulled and pushed our understanding of the relationship of the variety and verity of the media to the social and political worlds into new terrains.

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