Political Economy of Colonialism and Nation-Building in Nigeria

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Associate Professor in the Thabo Mbeki School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa, and Visiting Professor in the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. He is the author of Regionalism and Integration in Africa: EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigeria Relations (2016) and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy (with Toyin Falola, 2020). Oloruntoba was the recipient of the National Research Foundation of South Africa Award in 2018.

• Part I: The Political Economy of Colonialism.- 1. Colonialism and challenges of Nation-Building in Nigeria Colonialism and challenges of Nation-Building in Nigeria.- 2. The Political Economy of Colonialism and its implications on  Nation Building and Political Development n Nigeria.- 3. British Colonial Administration and Development of Western Education in Ilorin Emirate, 1900-1960.- 4. Imperial Citizens or Economic Nationalists? Analysis  of a colonially restructured Northwest Nigeria Economy in the 1940s.- 5. That they do not labour in vain: British Colonial Exploitation and Expropriation of Cocoa Industry in Ibadan, South-Western Nigeria.- 6. A History of Anti-Leprosy Campaign in Sokoto Area of Northern Nigeria, 1991-1975.- 7. Ethnicity, Fluid Identities and Nation Building in Nineteenth Century Lagos.- 8. Power, Politics and Pilgrimage: The Hajj and Colonial Ideology in Nigeria, 1903-1927.- Part II: Governance, Nation-building and Development in Nigeria.- 9. Nigeria Since 2014: Restructuring or Dismemberment?.- 10. The Nigerian Restructuring Agitations and Debates in Perspective.- 11. African Women in Politics: Past, Present and the Future.- 12. Women in Political Leadership in Nigeria: An Investigative Study.- 13. Democracy and Demilitarization in Africa: Towards a Reconceptualization.- 14. Ethnicity, Farmer-Herder Conflicts and Nation Building in Nigeria.- 15. Ethnicity, Citizenship Identity and Nation Building in Africa: The Nigeria Experience.- 16. ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement, Border Porosity and the emerging threats to International Security in North Central Nigeria.- 17. The Role of Leadership in Governance and Development Crises at the Grassroots Level: Insights form Ijebu North Local Government Area, Ogun State Nigeria.- 18. Local Government Finance and Implications for Development in Local Area in Nigeria: A Case Study of The Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State.- 19. Co-operative Societies and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Viable Model in Human Development of Nigeria.