A further publication of the Centre for Development and Conflict Management Studies (CEDCOMS), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. This study provides an overview of the problem of cultism in Nigerian higher education and some c…

A publication of the Centre for Development and Conflict Management Studies (CEDCOMS), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The study provides an overview of the relationship of the Nigerian State with oil; and of the oil communi…

Chief Obafemi Awolowo, or Awo, was a politician and statesman, intellectual, and one of the leading African philosophers of the twentieth century, as such best known for writing his African Platonic tract The P…

Amalgamation has become an ideal – the ideal of Nigerian nationhood. The question however, is whether this ideal is achievable. The thesis of this study is that the political history of the Nigerian state since…

African governments are increasingly assuming new functions to respond to social and economic needs, and these functions are slowly becoming part of the accepted responsibilities of government. These book addre…

This study begins by characterising the nature of post-Cold War conflicts in Africa. It then considers the military role of the Economic Community of West African States Cease-fire Monitoring Group [ECOMOG] and…

A compendium of scholarship on the English language and literature in the African, and especially Nigerian, contexts. Topics addressed include multilingualism and national development, the influence of Yoruba o…

This Festschrift, containing twenty-two essays by African scholars of African literature, is published as a tribute to Oyin Gunba, a renowned scholar of African literature, specifically oral literature and dram…

This book is an effort to condense the totality of Nigeria’s external relations and foreign policy, activities, accomplishments and shortcomings, during the thirty years of military rule 1966 to 1999 into a sin…