Author Description

History, Culture, Diasporas and Nation Building, is a collection of some lectures and rare publications of the eminent and internationally respected and quoted Nigerian historian, Okon Edet Uya.The selections in this book have been grouped into five sections focusing on an area of scholarly interest with which Professor Uya has been identified. Section One deals with issues of Historiography and Methodology, with special reference to African and Diaspora history, in which Professor Uya has become famous for his "inside out" as opposed to the "outside in" perspectives and methods in historical reconstruction.Section Two deals with three important controversial issues in African history, namely Apartheid in South Africa, Galla Migrations in Ethiopia and the history of the Sudan under Ruma rule.Section three presents a number of well researched pioneering articles on slavery, slave trade and the diaspora problematique. Section four deals with issues in the development of Nigeria. The last section deals with the many contesting and contending memories that have made meaningful reconstruction of the historical and contemporary experiences of the people of the lower Cross River region of Nigeria.