Petro-Sexual Politics: Global Oil, Legitimate Violence, and Transnational Justice argues that the frameworks of global politics depend upon simultaneous moments of gender violence. Petro-Sexual Politics explores how historical specificities of U.S.-Nigerian relations inform larg…
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This essay explores contacts between Northern Nigeria and the Arab world during the twentieth century, especially through pilgrimage, educational exchange, transnational organizations, and Arab financial support for Nigerian religious and political entrepreneurs. The thesis argu…
This dissertation engages questions about the intersection of the global agenda to help poor countries progress with those countries' own efforts to improve their citizens' wellbeing. Specifically, I integrate statistical modeling techniques with fieldwork and original data on n…
The British Empire Exhibition was the largest of the great imperial pleasure parks, built to celebrate a faith that victory in World War One meant a strengthening of imperial connections and the hope that an expanding empire would continue to play a large role in British and wor…
This study examines the problems and functions of farmers in the Oil land of Ogoni, Nigeria. It includes a review of changes in Nigerian Agricultural Development policies since, after the Nigerian Civil War, and how the policies affect the rural farmers. The study explores the b…
Recent archaeological investigations conducted jointly by the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments and the University of Maryland, under the direction of Ekpo Eyo, yielded a large number of decorated terracotta vessels, headrests, and anthropomorphic figurines …
The gene MUC1 encodes a transmembrane mucin glycoprotein that is expressed on the apical surface of most epithelia and is aberrantly expressed in cancer. MUC1 contains an extended domain of tandemly repeated (TR) amino-acid sequence, which acts as the backbone for a large amount…
The idea that there may exist some differences between macroeconomics in developing countries and macroeconomics in industrialized countries leads me to investigate economic fluctuations in developing countries. Nigeria embodies many issues faced by developing countries, such as…
Within and among countries, inequities in access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) represent a growing crisis. Among experts on technological implementation, discrepancies in access to technologies like the Internet are commonly referred to as the digital divi…
This dissertation centers on the visual culture of Yakurr people of Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria. It provides detailed ethnographic information about the culture and evokes a sense of Yakurr aesthetics as emergent out of a history steeped in warfare associated with th…
The thesis contributes to the perspective on the role of stakeholder engagement in negotiating corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and practices in developing country context. It critically examines the role of societal pressures as drivers of Shell's CSR agenda, and …
This paper is specifically concerned with contemporary artist El Anatsui, and his impact upon the region in which he lives and works in Nsukka, Nigeria. El Anatsui's large-scale wall sculptures--created by joining recycled aluminum distillery labels into elaborate brocades resem…
<?Pub Inc> Governments have the power to influence the size and health of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) sector in their nations through their economic, political, social, and military policies, as well as through their legal and regulatory systems. New instruments that …
Most theories designed to appraise literary works by Africans and people of African descent have acknowledged the major influence of orature, but the concept (or conceptualisation) of orature in these works, mainly by men, has been focused only on limited aspects of orature. Thi…
Understanding how human beings constitute order to affect productive ways of life is one of the central concerns of scholars. This study examines why three Yoruba communities of Nigeria---Ile-Ife, Ibadan and Abeokuta---differ in the extent to which their diverse groups of Yoruba…
This research study investigated the leadership practices of primary and secondary schools leaders in Nigeria. In investigating the leadership practices of primary and secondary schools leaders in Nigeria, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) instrument (LPI-Self and LPI-Obs…
The four chapters in this dissertation explore the factors that affect the livelihoods of rural households in Nigeria with an emphasis on understanding the role of the nonfarm economy. Although most rural households are involved in the farm sector, the nonfarm sector has grown s…
Nigeria is an African country endowed with a wealth of oil and gas resources, and they are mainly found in the core Niger Delta (home to the Ijaw and Ogoni indigenous, ethnic minorities). Since Great Britain granted Nigeria political independence on October 1, 1960, successive N…
Ekpu Oro ancestral figures existed as summaries of the personal and social experiences of the Oron people of Southeastern Nigeria---they embodied Oron spiritual beliefs and cultural history; hence, were vessels for the spirits of the dead that instilled great influence over the …