Cambridge University Press releases book on Awo’s political movement

News reaching Daily Newswatch has it that Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK and New York, USA) is set to release a new book on the political movement led by premier of the old Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

 The book titled ‘The Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency’ is written by Dr. Wale Adebanwi, an associate professor at the University of California, Davis, USA.

The definitive book on the political movement and parties led by the late sage investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy. The author also demonstrates in the work how the corporate agency of Chief Awolọwọ transformed the modern history and politics of one of Africa's largest ethnic groups, the Yorùbá, and Nigeria.

Daily Newswatch gathered that the Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) and the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation will jointly host the presentation of the book in Lagos after its release.

Members of the progressive, political, traditional, business and academic elite across Nigeria and the popular masses whose cause the sage championed throughout his life are expected to grace the book presentation.

 The book’s author, Adebanwi, is a scholar, writer, author, journalist and public intellectual. He holds two doctorates, one in political science from the University of Ibadan and another from the University of Cambridge in social anthropology.

 He is the author of ‘Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria’ (CAP, 2012; published in Nigeria as ‘A Paradise for Maggots: The Story of a Nigerian Anti-Corruption Cza’r, 2011), and co-editor of ‘Encountering the Nigerian State (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010), ‘Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration’ (Routledge, 2011) and ‘Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations’ (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013).