Hometown Associations
Indigenous knowledge and development in Nigeria
This book focuses on the Nigerian hometown association (HTA). HTAs are based on ties of kinship and ancestry, but are products of migrations and urbanization and are therefore of contemporary vintage. Associational life was, and remains, an important part of Nigerian social structure, and hometown associations have evolved into the most visible form of that associational life. Though they vary in many respects, HTAs have a few common properties, a crucial one being that they have significance both at home and abroad. At home, the focus is on improvement, though the specifics of what is to be improved and who decides is the subject of struggle. Abroad, the focus is dual - maintaining connections with home but also providing a supportive environment for people in a place where they are regarded as strangers. These studies illuminate the vitality of a fast-developing society. They include case studies of hometown associations operating across the country, as well as integrative studies comparing the HTAs across such important dimensions as gender relations, connections to formal government, and as agents of change.
Published: 1998
Pages: 176
eBook: 9781780445120
Paperback: 9781853394263
| Foreword by D. MICHAEL WARREN V | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgements vii | |||
| List of Figures viii | |||
| List of Tables viii | |||
| Introduction 1 | |||
| PART I, PROLOGUE | |||
| 1. Hometown associations as a means of governance in Nigeria | |||
| REX HONEY AND STANLEY I. OKAFOR 3 | |||
| 2. The nature of hometown voluntary associations in Nigeria | |||
| STANLEY I. OKAFOR AND REX HONEY | |||
| PART n, CASE STUDIES | |||
| 3. The hometown association as a community development | |||
| agent: the Ijebu-Jesa Union | |||
| A.S. AGUDA 17 | |||
| 4. The changing roles of a hometown association in | |||
| community development: The Fiditi Progressive Union | |||
| BOYE AGUNBIADE 25 | |||
| 5. Hometown associations as development catalysts: | |||
| The Case of the Egbe Ibile Omo Awe | |||
| MARK F. LAWRENCE AND S. TUNJl T1TILOLA 36 | |||
| 6. Civil society and participation: A Case Study of | |||
| the Egbe Omo Ilu Okuku | |||
| BISI OYEGOKE 45 | |||
| 7. Community mobilization and development: | |||
| The Asaba Development Association | |||
| STANLEY I. OKAFOR 53 | |||
| 8. Development and territoriality of a hometown association: | |||
| The Odimodi Ebidou Bene | |||
| CHRIS IKPORUKPO 64 | |||
| 9. Hometown associations and conflict management: | |||
| The Experience of the Agila Development Association | |||
| PITA OGABA AGBESE 75 | |||
| 10. The Iyakpi Progressive Union's role in participatory | |||
| development | |||
| I.B. BELLO-IMAM 89 | |||
| 11. Empowerment of women through associational life: | |||
| the Eziowelle Improvement Association | |||
| NKECHI MBANEFOH 101 | |||
| 12. Hometown associations as shadow states: | |||
| The case of Igbos and Yorubas in Kano | |||
| EGHOSA OSAGHAE 111 | |||
| PART m, SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS | |||
| 13. Women's participation in hometown associations | |||
| LARAY DENZER AND NKECHI MBANEFOH 123 | |||
| 14. The role of hometown associations in territorial conflict in | |||
| jurisdictional transformation | |||
| REX HONEY AND STANLEY I. OKAFOR 135 | |||
| 15. Structure, agency and the modification of indigenous institutions | |||
| REX HONEY 142 | |||
| Notes 154 | |||
| Bibliography 166 |
Rex Honey Rex Honey (1945-2010) Rex was a co-founder of the UI Center for Human Rights and helped to launch its new certificate program; he served as the Center’s associate director from 1999 to 2006. He also served as director of the UI’s Crossing Borders Graduate Training Program (2006-10), the African Studies Program, and the Global Studies Program (now the BA Program in International Studies).
Stanley I Okafor Stanley I. Okafor is a professor in the Department of Geography. His teaching and research interests include Political Geography, Medical Geography, Regional Development, Urban Geography and Geographic Thought. At the time of writing, his research includes the impact of neoliberal reforms on health care provision and the role of hometown associations in promoting development.
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