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1 online resource |
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Cover; About the Author; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1. COLONIAL PLOUGHING FOR VIOLENCE; PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS; OCCUPATION OF PROTECTORATE; INDIRECT RULE AS PLOUGHING FOR VIOLENCE: PERSONAL IMPACT ON IMPERSONAL STRUCTURE; INDIRECT RULE IN THEORY; INDIRECT RULE IN PRACTICE; ASSESSMENT; ONUS FOR PUBLIC APOLOGY; 2. SOWING COLONIAL SEEDS OF INEQUALITY, INTOLERANCE AND DIVISION; RELIGIOUS MAP OF PRE-COLONIAL NORTHERN NIGERIA; NON-MUSLIM POPULATION IN THE EARLY COLONIAL ERA; BASELESS SUPPORT FOR ISLAM |
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THE ALLEGED INFERIOR NATURE OF THE AFRICANSUMMARY; BASELESS RANKING OF RELIGIONS; THE BLYDEN FACTOR; THE DEFENSOR FIDEI ARGUMENT; SEEDS OF MUSLIM-TRADITIONALIST TENSION; SEEDS OF MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN CONFLICT; WHY THE CAT AND MOUSE?; CONCLUSION; 3. POST-COLONIAL FRUITAGE OF FERTILISER APPLICATION AND VIOLENCE; REDLINE CROSSING; UNMONITORED GROWTH; FERTILISER APPLICATION; NIGERIA -- A CHRISTIAN-MAJORITY COUNTRY; FRUITAGE OF MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE; SUMMARY; 4. DIALOGUE IS NOT ENOUGH; ERA OF SPONTANEITY; YORUBALAND; NUPELAND; HAUSALAND; ERA OF REFLECTION; ERA OF THE SHAMBOLIC -- 1986ff |
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BRAINSTORMINGWHY NOT MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE?; 5. PUBLIC APOLOGY FOR RECONCILIATION; DEFINITION; SOURCES; HISTORY; ISSUES; FORMS OF APOLOGY; WHY APOLOGISE?; FINDINGS; RELEVANCE TO NORTHERN NIGERIA; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX I. Interview with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo; APPENDIX II. Interview with Chief Samuel Oluyemisi Falae; APPENDIX III. Public Apologies Table Generated by the Author; APPENDIX IV. Interview with Professor Is-haq Akintola; Bibliography; Index; Back cover |
| Summary |
In this book, Dr. Olufemi Oluniyi takes a fresh look at Muslim-Christian violence which has become synonymous with the name of Northern Nigeria. It is fresh in the sense that he takes a historical approach to the problem, dating back to the founding of Northern Nigeria. This approach inevitably brings to the fore the culpability of the colonial government for the institutionalisation of inequality and for pursuing policies which are tantamount to planting the seeds of religious violence for post-independence fruitage and harvest. By highlighting the role of the colonial administration, he is by no means suggesting that post-independence perpetrators of violence are less culpable for their crimes against humanity. Rather, the highlight is meant to raise awareness of what was really going on, despite official cover-up |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 30, 2018) |
| Subject |
Religion and politics -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century
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African history.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Politics and government
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Religion and politics
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Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091883
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Nigeria
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789789629770 |
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978962977X |
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