| Title: | Kingship Institution in Post-Colonial Akokoland, 1960–1999 |
| Authors: | Sunday Abraham, Ogunode |
| Citation: | West Bohemian Historical Review. 2019, no. 2, p. 215-238. |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Západočeská univerzita v Plzni |
| Document type: | článek article |
| URI: | http://wbhr.cz/images/issues/WBHR_2019_2.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11025/36539 |
| ISSN: | 1804-5480 |
| Keywords: | královská instituce;postkoloniální Akokoland;Nigerie;1960–1999 |
| Keywords in different language: | kingship institution;post-colonial Akokoland;Nigeria;1960–1999 |
| Abstract in different language: | The attainment of independence in 1960 opened a new vista in the political history of Nigeria as the new nation, was after long years of tortuous journey in the hands of aggressive external control and coupled with series of destructive internal disturbances across villages, towns, cities throughout the polity, had the first opportunity at selfgovernance in the modern sense. Retrospectively, historians and other scholars have explicitly documented and argued the huge impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the legitimate trade, colonial rule and the forced union called amalgamation in 1914 on Nigeria. The attainment of political or flag independence was, however, not an automatic guarantee of solutions to the many damages that were done to our socio-economic and political institutions by the above development in our collective history. The paper, therefore, presents discussions on how the kingship institution in Akokoland in particular and Nigeria in general has fared since independence up to the period of return to civil rule in 1999. Using a gristmill of sources, the descriptive and analytical methods were used to present the ideas of the paper and the findings revealed that the kingship institution beyond Akokoland has continued to show resilience despite the various stages of mutations it has passed through. |
| Rights: | © Západočeská univerzita v Plzni |
| Appears in Collections: | Číslo 2 (2019) Číslo 2 (2019) |
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