 | A Catalogue of Pan-African University Press - Updated List, Part 2Introducing some best-selling books from the collection of Pan-African University Press. |
| |  | Culture, Democracy and Development in Africa Conceptually and programmatically, there is no clear connection between the concepts of democracy, culture and development. However, the influences of Western European countries in the implementation of democratic ideals and development models, plans and programs on the African continent, has created vast fields of play between them, in so doing informing and blending into one another. It is in the context of this that this book comes to the fore. First, to assess the question of whether development undergirds democracy or promote democratic impulses. Second, to scrutinize the casual link between democracy and development, which is taken for granted in our times. Third and finally, to assess the claims of whether culture is dynamic and fluid as it is in the era of increased global flows or as an entity to be compartmentalized or understood in fixed terms. The book takes the concept of culture as its point of departure to explore political, economic and social phenomena, on the grounds that, whenever one defines the concept of development or democracy, the notion of culture assumes a deterministic and influential role in it, and that the precepts of democracy or models of development are usually marked by tangible signs or sets of ideas, visions and claims, which ultimately determine the contours of culture. It is on these grounds that, not only does each of these three concepts supports or denotes group or institutional practices, but also contains conceptual claims with ideological power.
ISBN: 978-1943533190 Ι Published 2017 | Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N8,000]
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|  | Getting Our Universities Back on Track: Reflections and Governance Paradigms Getting Our Universities Back on Track is a broad narrative on the state of higher education in Nigeria, undertaken within the context of the author's experience as Vice Chancellor at Adekunle Ajasin University (AAUA), a pub¬lic university in the country, from 2010 to 2015. The process by which the author negotiated the challenges presented by AAUA in those years are care¬fully unveiled in a manner that speaks to the emergence of new paradigms for university governance, predicated upon an untrammelled commitment to meritocracy. It is a narrative on the success story of modernization of a public university operating in a particularly difficult policy and politics terrain. It equates a practice manual for university governance in Nigeria, and arguably beyond.
ISBN: 978-1943533091 Ι Published 2017 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N8,000]
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|  | Africa and Its Diaspora: History, Identities and Economy This book provides important aspects of African diasporic experiences, covering the mass movement of Africans to Asia, Europe, and United States of America, the resistance to the epistemic violence caused by slavery and slave revolts, and the survival of African culture in the Diaspora. The book also explores the role of arts in fostering development as well as the influence of slavery and religion on Africans. Given the contradictions that continue to define African experiences in the global capitalist system, the book offers some alternative points of departure. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is a Senior Lecturer and the Coordinator of the Research cluster on Innovation and Developmental Regionalism at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. He obtained his PhD in Political Science with specialization in International Political Economy of Trade from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where he is a tenured Faculty member. Oloruntoba is the author of Regionalism and Integration in EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigeria Relations, and co-editor of Regenerating Bringing African Solutions to African Problems and the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook on African Politics, Governance and Development. Oloruntoba received the 2016 Wangari Maathai Award for Innovative Research Leadership at the University of Texas in Austin.
ISBN: 978-1943533213 Ι Published 2017 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N8,000]
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|  | Decolonizing Nigeria, 1945–1960: Politics, Power, and Personalities Bearing both the professional and general readers in mind, Decolonizing Politics, Power, and Personalities is an innovative approach at crafting a popular history of a great moment in Nigeria's history. The book is neatly organized into three parts. Part One focuses on the late colonial era's driving forces to bring about self-determination for Nigeria. Part Two deals with the establishment of developmen¬tal institutions for self-government. Part Three is organized under the central theme of "Regionalism and Change," highlighting the personalities of Nigeria's most powerful Bello, Azikiwe, and Awolowo in relation to how their careers accentuated the structures of regional differences. The final concluding chapter explains the post-independence tasking steps to deal with the "unfinished businesses" of decolonization. Aimed at a wider audience with a blend of grassroots and elitist positions, Decolonizing Nigeria is a monumental work, and a seminal contribution to understanding both the political economies and the geopolitics of the post-colonial multi-ethnic nation states in contemporary global village.
ISBN: 978-1943533145 Ι Published 2017 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N10,000]
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|  | The Democratization of Africa: Dynamics and Trends Why does the future of democracy seem uncertain on the continent? The achievement of this book is to provide answers to this question. First, the book reasons that the democratization processes on the continent are moving forward backwards, in that the preconditions for continued sustainability of democracy are absent and not plentiful in almost all African nations. In Europe, development preceded democracy, whereas in Africa, development and democracy are being implemented concurrently, in the face of austerity measures in order to induce economic growth. Thus, the book argues that development, by all counts, is a precondition for democracy and not the other way round. Second, the book suggests that the democratization processes defy the traditional principles of democracy where power evolves from "bottom up". In African nations, power evolves from "top to bottom", creating a deformed and an abnormal form of democracy known as "elite democracy", imposed on African people by African elites through external influences of Western European countries in the form of political conditionality and adoption of the Bill of Rights by African nations, as preconditions for receiving not only development aid and loans, but also for diplomatic relations. Third, the book concludes that the democratization processes are just experiments of transplantation of Western European values to African nations, since Western European values disregard African traditional values and often dismiss them as irrational and primitive, instead of viewing them as complimentary.
ISBN:978-1943533138 Ι Published 2017 Ι Pan-African University Press [ AVAILABLE FOR N8,000]
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|  | Paradise Lost? A Political History of British Southern Cameroons from 1916 to 1972 A complete and well balanced, fully researched history book of British Southern Cameroons spanning from pre-colonial era to post-independence and neo-colonization. This book will be deeply cherished by the general public as well as scholars of history, international law and diplomacy. The facts are clearly presented and events are fully referenced. The book also clearly lays out the underpinnings of the crisis for sovereignty and self determination brewing in the former British Southern Cameroons and proposes a path forward that guarantees peace and prosperity for its citizens. Nfor Ngala Nfor is a well known figure in international circles as a political activist and freedom fighter. He has a lifetime of dedication to improving the wellbeing of all people through self-governance and self-determination. His political career is highlighted by several leadership positions at a national and international level as well as several arbitrary arrests and torture at the hands of the military of the Republic of Cameroon. At the time of publication of this book Nfor Ngala Nfor is serving a life sentence as political prisoner in Yaounde, Republic of Cameroon.
Published 2020 | ISBN: 978-1943533480 | Published By: Pan-African University Press [ AVAILABLE FOR N8,000]
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|  | Looking Back from the Future: The View from Onitsha—Message to my Children Looking back from the Future provides an imagined perspective looking back from an unspecified time in the future, on significant events in the eras that have passed. Onitsha today is a leading Igbo and Nigerian city on the banks of the River Niger. In the envisaged future it is a major city in what has become a 'World of Homelands.' The defining feature dividing early and later eras is: 'rooted ethic.' In the early eras the 'Ethic of Darkness' (with attendant attributes of exclusion/division/acquisition) is dominant. In the later eras the 'Ethic of Light' (with attendant attributes of realization/actuation/civil persuasion/inclusion) is dominant. Looking Back explores prospects offered by the 'transformational' properties of the computer, the internet and the world of cybernetics. It suggests possibilities for movement out of Darkness, into sustained Light, and on towards establishment of the Civil Commons, throughout what is envisaged as a World of Homelands'—the socio-ethno/political units that have replaced States and most Nations.
Published 2018 | ISBN: 978-1943533343 | Published By: Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N2,000]
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|  | Reforms, Governance and Development in Nigeria This volume combines conceptual and empirical methodology to connect the administrative dots between the dynamics of democratic governance and the imperatives of development in Nigeria. The optimism underlying this book derives from the author's reflection on the connection between democratic governance, the civil service in Nigeria and the critical import of reform as the sine qua non for achieving not only a paradigm shift in Nigeria's productivity profile, but also as the means through which democracy can become a truly liberating ideology for Nigerians. The volume explores a deep historical strategy as an administrative method by which to understand why the capability readiness of the Nigeria civil service system has been compromised and how a deep political commitment to the transformation of the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) can transform Nigeria in terms of infrastructural and human capital development. Tunji Olaopa, PhD, a retired Federal permanent secretary in Nigeria, is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and recipient of the 2015 Nigerian National Productivity Order of Merit Award. He is now the Executive Vice Chairman of the Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy (ISGPP), Nigeria. He combines an uncommon theoretical and practical insights into the reform dynamics of the Nigerian and African public service that derives from an over twenty seven years of reform crusade concerning the operational workability of democratic governance and the imperative role and responsibility of the civil service. Tunji Olaopa is the author of over a dozen other books including Public Administration & Civil Service Reforms in Nigeria (2012); Innovation and Best Practices in Public Sector Ideas, Strategies & Conditions (2012); Public Service Reforms in Africa (2010); Managing Complex A Public Sector Perspective (2011); The Joy of Learning (2009); and The Labour of Our Heroes (2016).
ISBN: 978-1943533244 Ι Published 2017 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLEFOR N7,000]
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|  | Pioneering By Grace: An Autobiography PIONEERING BY GRACE is more than a narrative of individual achievement but ascertain for emerging generations of professional academic and researchers to live and indelible impacts on their areas of influence. The book presents the narrative of the author's childhood from Lagos Island and his family background up to his adventure during the secondary school years and his exposure to leadership training. The first pioneering experience starting with the advance level program and he enjoyed through University of lbadan for the first degree and his return for his postgraduate also in the same university for another pioneering role were highlighted which he termed "Second Missionary Journey" the third pioneering spirit which was being among the pioneering staff of Ogun State University, now Olabisi Onabanjo University and the experience and challenges were articulated in this section of the book. The most outstanding pioneering exposure was his appointment and role as the pioneering Vice chancellor of the first University of Education in Nigeria and his experience in the emerging University, as well as his university teaching experience for forty-one years or so were highlighted. Professor Kayode Oyesiku is known as academic giant, professor of professors in Urban and Regional Planning, Transportation System Planning and Logistic Management and a household name in Urban Geography. At 66 he is known as the grandfather of spatial analysis in Nigeria.
ISBN:978-1-943533-75-6 Ι Published 2024 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N12,000]
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|  | The Unending Quest for Reform: An Intellectual Memoir In this book, Tunji Olaopa fills a critical gap in public administration history in Nigeria with the insertion of a personal narrative in the formal historical trajectory of public administration and public service. Personal narratives-biographies, autobiographies and memoirs serve a significant purpose in enlivening and humanizing the role that public administration and administrators play in the transformation of the discourse and practice of making Nigeria a better country. In this memoir, Olaopa ties his personal and professional maturation together into a seamless story of a young Abwa boy making it to the Presidency in Abuja, and building a governance and institutional reform portfolio and philosophy that speak to the yearning of a professional and patrict intent on transforming the policy architecture and institutional structuration of the Nigerian state. This memoir, therefore, has an intergenerational objective it is the past speaking to the future about why Nigeria must be great
ISBN: 978-1-943533-59-6 Ι Published 2023 Ι Pan-African University Press [COPY DISTRIBUTION AT VARIOUS BOOKSTORES IN NIGERIA]
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|  | On Wings of Light: Reflections on Cybernetics, Africa & the Wider World As our world battles on from a Darkened past and an equally Dark present, a steady beam of Light persists. It is eternal and within the core Spirit of humankind. It has long sought full release; opening wide the flood-gates of Actuation, Inclusion and Life Engagement. On Wings of Light declares this time has already arrived. Sharply accelerating transfigurative effects, it contends, are due to the advent of Cybernetics; the combined operation of Electronics and Communications in our modern world. Cybernetics not only brings Great Light to illuminate age-old Corridors of Darkness; it points mankind in the direction of a bright and promising Horizon Future. In the unfolding of this future, it maintains that Africa, with its vast lands, folk, resources, root Ethic of Light and increasing prominence, will play the determining role. Exploring relevant concepts, thoughts and perceptions; this work reflects on their meaning, significance and stimulus to practical research and activity.
Professor Michael Vickers taught Political Science at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) Nigeria; taught and conducted research at universities in America, Canada, and the United Kingdom; is the recipient of the Distinguished Academic Award (2012) from the Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora, (Lagos). He authored (with Ken Post) of Structure and Conflict in Nigeria, 1960-65 (London & Madison, 1973), Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria (Oxford, 2000), Odes of Forest and Town, (Sussex, 2002), Phantom Trail—Discovering Ancient America, (New York, 2005), A Nation Betrayed—Nigeria and the 1957 Minorities Commission (Trenton, NJ, 2010), Phantom Ship (Trenton, NJ, 2013), and Looking Back from the Future (Forthcoming). He holds a doctorate in Political Science and West African Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is Emeritus Director of Parliamentary and Public Affairs, The Hillfield Agency (UK).
ISBN: 978-1-943533-01-5 Ι Published 2015 | Pan-African University Press. [AVAILABLE FOR N5,000]
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|  | Divided People of God: Church Union Movement In Nigeria: 1875—1966 In 1974, when the first edition of this book was published, Dr. Ogbu Kalu (1942-2009) was a young, devout Presbyterian minister and scholar who believed that the unity of the Church of Nigeria was not only possible but necessary. Indeed, an ecumenical movement had seen a similar need for unity and predicted that this unity would occur in December of 1965. The vision was to create not multiple churches of many denominations, but rather one complete, unified church composed of Anglicans, Methodists, and Presbyterians. However, this was not to be, due to inner negotiations breaking down. Dr. Kalu thus took it upon himself to write a study about the impulses and arguments toward unity and why unity is the true intention of God. This second edition's publication honors Dr. Kalu's call to unity, and it allows the modern reader to ponder what unity means in the twenty-first century and the current Church of Nigeria.
ISBN: 978-1-943533-37-4 Ι Published 2018 Ι Pan-African University Press [AVAILABLE FOR N6,500]
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|  | Fate of Our Mothers: The Collected Memories of an African Village Boy Fate of Our Mothers is the first in the series of the author's narrative of the assorted experiences that exemplify the first twenty years of his life. From rustic village life as a five year old boy, to the young adult person slated for the job of an untrained teacher in the city, the eclectic events in the author's life bring to life the untold stories of rural living, featuring the cultural conflicts endemic in a patriarchal system where while men may rule, the women are the active prime movers in the order of things. The story or compendium of stories take the reader through a life that epitomizes the paradoxical interface among joy, peace, as well as tragedies and pains; successes and gains, as well as failures and losses; protection and comfort, as well as dangerous exposure and vulnerability. The story does not follow the orthodoxy of systematic chronicling that often characterizes traditional memoirs. Rather, the author verbally addresses his own four children, who were born and raised in America, a sporadic reflection of his childhood upbringing in a far away village of Oke-Awo, Aba Iresi in southwestern Nigeria. He describes the rustic simplicity of Yoruba village life, the beauty of living under the roof and compound of a caring father, two relentlessly hardworking mothers, ten siblings, many relatives, and a countless number of extended family members and non-relatives. In all, Fate of Our Mothers whispers into our collective conscience that the survival of the Yoruba universe is anchored in the fate of its women.
ISBN: 978-1943533008 Ι Published 2015 Ι Pan-African University Press. [ AVAILABLE FOR N7,000]
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| | These books are available at bookstores or various institutions' libraries across Nigeria. You can also contact us on how to bring your publishable texts on board. For pickups, please reach the Press via: EMAIL: info@panafricanuniversitypress.com PHONE: Lola +234 814-216-1095 OR Adebayo +234 810-726-2267
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