Religion and the Making of Nigeria
Author(s)
Vaughan, Olufemi
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
100276Language
EnglishAbstract
'In Religion and the Making of Nigeria', Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram.
Keywords
History; Hausa–Fulani; Muslims; Nigeria; Nigerians; Northern Region; Nigeria; Sharia; Yoruba peopleDOI
10.1215/9780822373872ISBN
9780822373872OCN
944304957Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham NC, 2016-12-09Series
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People,Classification
African history