USA Africa Dialogue Series - Falola, Nigeria And the Politics of Everybody

 

Nigeria And the Politics of Everybody: Socia Media, Idealism, and Activism | © 2023 | ISBN: 978-1-5310-2654-7

By Toyin Falola

 

788 pp.  $99.00

ISBN 978-1-5310-2654-7
eISBN 978-1-5310-2655-4

 

  https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531026547/Nigeria-and-the-Politics-of-Everybody

Based on the use of social media as a source and methodology, this four-color book addresses Nigeria from the vantage point of contemporary thematic preoccupations, ideological orientations, and prevailing activism. It is the first book to discuss Nigeria in line with the predominance of social media usage and its dynamic effects on politics, democracy, economy, social constructs, and themes. It highlights the major contemporary issues: corruption, secessionist agitations, feminism, sexuality, democracy, and public resistance.

Increasingly, Nigeria is defining itself through the new media, putting political participation, dissent, and determination of the political situation on the instrumentalities of social media. The book offers a mixed method, comprising the use of thousands of online documents, secondary sources, interviews, and observatory data where the views of scholars are used in analyzing critical issues. Interactions with average Nigerians and brilliant minds also shape the elements of the conversations and discussions.

 

CONTENTS

PART A: CONTEXT

• Chapter 1: Nigeria in the World of Social Media 
• Chapter 2: State Regulations and Social Media
• Chapter 3: The USA-Africa Dialogue: Visions and Provisions   

PART B: THE BIG THEMES

• Chapter 4: Corruption and Citizens' Agonies
• Chapter 5: Biafra and the Oduduwa Republic: Restructuring and Secessionist Campaigns
• Chapter 6: Feminism in a Resistant Society
• Chapter 7: Sexuality in the Public Domain
• Chapter 8: Queer People and Queer-themed Literature
• Chapter 9: Social Media and Youth Participation
• Chapter 10: Soro-Soke: #ENDSARS And Youth Resistance

PART C: PROMINENT FIGURES

• Chapter 11: Pius Adesanmi: The Pursuit of Knowledge
• Chapter 12: Ayo Olukotun: Inside the Boundless Dimensions of Nigeria
• Chapter 13: Ayo Olukotun: The Pulse of the Nation
• Chapter 14: Abimbola Adelakun: Remaking Society
• Chapter 15: Bamidele Ademola-Olateju:  Narrating the Nation
• Chapter 16: Gloria Emeagwali: Conversations on Africa
• Chapter 17: Farooq Kperogi: Two Nigerian Presidents
• Chapter 18: Farooq Kperogi: The 2023 Elections
• Chapter 19: Moses Ochonu: The Nigerian Nation, The University System, and The Corrupt Country
• Chapter 20: Anthony Akinola: Treatise of A Detribalized Writer
• Chapter 21: Victor Asemota: Technology and Societal Development
• Chapter 22: Jibrin Ibrahim: Nigerian Politics

PART D: REFLECTIONS AND REFRACTIONS

• Chapter 23: Imaginations of the Future of Nigeria 
• Chapter 24: Spectators or Gladiators? The Impact of Social Media
• Chapter 25: Social Media: Dissidence and Critique

 

Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

 

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