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Toyin Omoyeni Falola - Counting the Tiger's Teeth: An African Teenager's Story - 9780472119486 - V9780472119486
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Counting the Tiger's Teeth: An African Teenager's Story

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Description for Counting the Tiger's Teeth: An African Teenager's Story Hardcover. A preeminent historian s memoir of the first peasant rebellion in postcolonial Nigeria" Num Pages: 360 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBTB; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 667.

Counting the Tiger’s Teeth narrates a crucial turning point in Nigerian history, the Agbekoya rebellion (“Peasants Reject Poverty”) of 1968–70, as chronicled by Toyin Falola, reflecting on his firsthand experiences as a teenage witness to history. Falola, the foremost scholar of Africa of this generation, illuminates the complex factors that led to this armed conflict and details the unfolding of major events and maneuvers. The narrative provides unprecedented, even poetic, access to the social fabric and dynamic cosmology of the farming communities in rebellion as they confronted the modernizing state. The postcolonial government exercised new modes of power that corrupted ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119486
SKU
V9780472119486
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Ref
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About Toyin Omoyeni Falola
Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor of History University of Texas.

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