Marginality and Crisis

Akanmu G. Adebayo is professor of history at Kennesaw State University.Olutayo Adesina is associate professor in the department of history at University of Ibadan, Nigeria.Rasheed Oyewole Olaniyi is the sub-dean of the department of history at University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

• Part 1 Section I: Discourse on GlobalizationChapter 2 1. IntroductionChapter 3 2. Globalization: The Politics of "We" and "Them"Chapter 4 3. Origin and Dynamics of Globalization: A Historical ApproachChapter 5 4. Compatriotism vs. Cosmopolitanism: Exploring a New Cosmo-Morality of Human Relations from the Yoruba in the Age of Global-izationPart 6 Section II: Globalization and CultureChapter 7 5. Kiswahili Language and the Future of East African Integration in the Age of GlobalizationChapter 8 6. The Kabba Dress: Identity and Modernity in Contemporary CameroonChapter 9 7. Beyond Memoir: Echoes of Globalization, Identity and Gender Struggle in Wole Soyinka's Ake: The Childhood YearsChapter 10 8. From the Global to the Local: The Media and Islam in Nigeria, 1979-2006Part 11 Section III: Marginality: Africa and the Political Economy of GlobalizationChapter 12 9. Globalization and the Privatization of State Owned Enterprises: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Privatization on the Nige-rian EconomyChapter 13 10 Contemporary Trade, Investment Practices, and the Challenges of Poverty Alleviation in AfricaChapter 14 11. Community-Based Organizations: Household Food and Liveli-hood Security in Southern NigeriaChapter 15 12. Trade Liberalization and Employment in NigeriaChapter 16 13. Globalization, Poverty, and the Failure of States in Africa: Is There a Connection?Part 17 Section IV: Crisis: Hotspots and ContestationsChapter 18 14. A Cross-Regional Analysis African Conflicts in the Age of GlobalizationChapter 19 15. Globalization, Identity Politics, and the Escalation of Ife-Modakeke CrisisChapter 20 16. The 2001 Tiv-Jukun Ethnic Crisis: The "Indigene-Settler" Fac-tor ReconsideredChapter 21 17. Petroleum, the Environment, and the Economics of Nationalism in the Niger DeltaChapter 22 18. Oil Conflict in the Niger Delta: Revisiting the Odi GenocidePart 23 Section V: ConclusionChapter 24 19. Conclusion

Marginality and Crisis: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa is essential reading for those seriously interested in understanding the complex political, social, and economic dimensions of globalization in African societies and the imaginative response of these societies to this enigmatic post-war phenomenon. Adebayo, Adesina, and Olaniyi, three renowned African scholars, and their colleagues have given us a critical volume on the transformative impact of globalization in contemporary African states, effectively engaging intersections of the local and the global, tradition and modernity, state and society. With compelling case studies, especially from Nigeria, Africa’s most complicated postcolony, this volume is an important and timely contribution to African studies.