Falola, Nigeria And the Politics of Everybody
Toyin Falola
Nigeria And the Politics of Everybody: Socia Media, Idealism, and Activism | © 2023 | ISBN: 978-1-5310-2654-7
By Toyin Falola
788 pp. $99.00
ISBN 978-1-5310-2654-7
eISBN 978-1-5310-2655-4
https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531026547/Nigeria-and-the-Politics-of-Everybody
Based on the use of social media as a source and methodology, this four-color book addresses Nigeria from the vantage point of contemporary thematic preoccupations, ideological orientations, and prevailing activism. It is the first book to discuss Nigeria in line with the predominance of social media usage and its dynamic effects on politics, democracy, economy, social constructs, and themes. It highlights the major contemporary issues: corruption, secessionist agitations, feminism, sexuality, democracy, and public resistance.
Increasingly, Nigeria is defining itself through the new media, putting political participation, dissent, and determination of the political situation on the instrumentalities of social media. The book offers a mixed method, comprising the use of thousands of online documents, secondary sources, interviews, and observatory data where the views of scholars are used in analyzing critical issues. Interactions with average Nigerians and brilliant minds also shape the elements of the conversations and discussions.
CONTENTS
PART A: CONTEXT
- Chapter 1: Nigeria in the World of Social Media
- Chapter 2: State Regulations and Social Media
- Chapter 3: The USA-Africa Dialogue: Visions and Provisions
PART B: THE BIG THEMES
- Chapter 4: Corruption and Citizens' Agonies
- Chapter 5: Biafra and the Oduduwa Republic: Restructuring and Secessionist Campaigns
- Chapter 6: Feminism in a Resistant Society
- Chapter 7: Sexuality in the Public Domain
- Chapter 8: Queer People and Queer-themed Literature
- Chapter 9: Social Media and Youth Participation
- Chapter 10: Soro-Soke: #ENDSARS And Youth Resistance
PART C: PROMINENT FIGURES
- Chapter 11: Pius Adesanmi: The Pursuit of Knowledge
- Chapter 12: Ayo Olukotun: Inside the Boundless Dimensions of Nigeria
- Chapter 13: Ayo Olukotun: The Pulse of the Nation
- Chapter 14: Abimbola Adelakun: Remaking Society
- Chapter 15: Bamidele Ademola-Olateju: Narrating the Nation
- Chapter 16: Gloria Emeagwali: Conversations on Africa
- Chapter 17: Farooq Kperogi: Two Nigerian Presidents
- Chapter 18: Farooq Kperogi: The 2023 Elections
- Chapter 19: Moses Ochonu: The Nigerian Nation, The University System, and The Corrupt Country
- Chapter 20: Anthony Akinola: Treatise of A Detribalized Writer
- Chapter 21: Victor Asemota: Technology and Societal Development
- Chapter 22: Jibrin Ibrahim: Nigerian Politics
PART D: REFLECTIONS AND REFRACTIONS
- Chapter 23: Imaginations of the Future of Nigeria
- Chapter 24: Spectators or Gladiators? The Impact of Social Media
- Chapter 25: Social Media: Dissidence and Critique
Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
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Indeed, “a book marketers dream.a digital marketers dream.”
Given the perennial political subject matters forever engaging the sleeping giant of Africa (social media’s deliberations on the way forward out of the nightmare corruption that bedevils the nation, preoccupations with fair and unfair elections in the past, hopeful visionary trajectories of futures, new sexual trends in Modern Nigeria, this is the kind of book that will never become obsolete or outdated since it’s not just about past histories, it’s about current and recurrent history and the topics are evolving ,not stagnating in the present continuous.
The title of the book - and its professed contents, reminiscent of the hit: Everyday People by Arrested Development
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Correction: Not “Everyday People” but 𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 - 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙙𝙖𝙮 1992
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Toyin Falola
We call it research methodology!
An archeologist did not live inside a cave and inside graves. How did he get the records? He digs.
I am not on your Facebook, but I can download everything you have been posting, classified as public, just as I can access everything that Toyin Adepoju has written whenever I want them.
And there are sites like USA-Africa Dialogue, Naijanet, etc. that are public. Everything you write on this platform is accessible. My students read them for their assignments. I use this platform to write the chapter on Gloria Emeagwali. I actually wrote a draft chapter on Cornelius, based on this platform, but I dropped it from the book.
To write this book, I printed over two million pages of documents. Just go to Computer Village in Lagos and ask for everything that Chidi and Farooq have been writing, pay them, and collect them via download.
TF
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Mazi Cornelius,
Oga TF is not on Facebook and most likely not on other social media platforms.
So, how did he get the first hand information needed for this book?
-CAO.
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 10:22 AM cornelius...@gmail.com <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed, “a book marketers dream.a digital marketers dream.”
Given the perennial political subject matters forever engaging the sleeping giant of Africa (social media’s deliberations on the way forward out of the nightmare corruption that bedevils the nation, preoccupations with fair and unfair elections in the past, hopeful visionary trajectories of futures, new sexual trends in Modern Nigeria, this is the kind of book that will never become obsolete or outdated since it’s not just about past histories, it’s about current and recurrent history and the topics are evolving ,not stagnating in the present continuous.
The title of the book - and its professed contents, reminiscent of the hit: Everyday People by Arrested Development
On Saturday, 23 September 2023 at 23:32:17 UTC+2 Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth wrote:
Great! Its seems a book marketers dream.a digital marketers dream
On Saturday, September 23, 2023, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
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".....So, how did he get the first hand information needed for this book?-CAO."
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You have no idea how gracious Ojogbon has been to me; for which I am eternally grateful. But for him using his discretion and exercising his prerogative as moderator and thereby wisely rejecting what I have sometimes impetuously forwarded to this forum, I could have been in more trouble than I had bargained for. He has saved my black somewhere/black something more times than I can count.
When it comes to Nigerian matters , especially historical, political, military, post mortems on the Biafra War, all the rank hatred and unending hullabaloo about Fulani Herdsmen, fuel subsidies, anti-corruption, economic cultural, musical, and literary matters, with the book we are referring to in mind, even as a Pan-Africanist, relatively speaking with regard to many of our Nigerians in this forum I'd count myself as irrelevant : think of the enormous contributions made by e.g. Baba Kadiri, and you yourself. On the Islamic front your thrusts have sometimes generated all kinds of antithesis, and forced many a counter argument the very essence of difference ,diversity, plurality, although some besserwisser types don't like it when someone disagrees with them the way that philosophers and some authorities disagree among themselves. On one occasion, I asked Baba Kadiri,” How can you know all this?” He replied, “ I am a Nigerian.!”
At a certain period in the national history of Sierra Leone, at FBC, Kenneth Ofodile could have won the student Union Presidential election, but he demurred on the grounds that at that stage of Sierra Leone’s national history it would be more proper and appropriate for a Sierra Leonean to be elected President of the Student Union. He later on married a Sierra Leonean beauty, nee Winifred Fowler. Many years later, Winifred passed away in Sokoto.
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“Why did you drop the section on Cornelius?”TA
Toyin realized that the book wouldneed another 500 pages, if he wereto include Cornelius and his religions,and so on.I bet he decided to devotean entire book to Cornelius, and notjust a chapter.
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