Book On Awolowo To Be Launch

The first authoritative scholarly book on the political elite of one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa entitled “Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency,” written by Dr Wale Adebanwi will be unveiled at a colourful ceremony at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos State, on April 17.
The author, a seasoned writer, who examines how Chief Obáfemi Awólowo remade Yorùbá history in modern times, also demonstrated how the corporate agency of the elite transformed the modern history and politics of one of Africa’s largest ethnic groups, the Yoruba´.

The argument is organised round the ideas and cultural representations of Chief Awolowo, the central signifier of modern Yoruba culture.

Through the narration and analysis of material, non-material and interactional phenomena – such as political party and ethnic group organisation, cultural politics, democratic struggle, personal ambitions, group solidarity, death, memory and commemoration – this book examines the foundations of the legitimacy of the Yoruba political elite.

Using historical sociology and ethnographic research, Adebanwi takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the most powerful and progressive elite groups in Africa, tracing its internal and external struggles for power.