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Traditional Institutions and Leadership among the Hausa/Fulani People of Northern Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorBakare, Adebola Rafiu
dc.contributor.authorAbubakar, Abdulrahman
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-03T14:58:50Z
dc.date.available2024-05-03T14:58:50Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionThe diverse, highly structured leadership styles that prevailed in the Nigerian pre-colonial era depict the existence of classical, social and political thoughts before the introduction of the European socio-political thought by the missionary educators. There is no gain saying that the present day Nigerian contemporary institutions and leadership styles as introduced by the British colonialists is new. Traditional institutions and leadership politics had been in existence in Nigeria and by extension Africa before the coming of the Europeans. However, the Eurocentric scholars (those that study European people, cultures and institutions) made people realize that nothing good can come from Africa. They premised this notion on the fact that Africa is not developed academically, socially, economically and politically; therefore, all institutions in Africa are inferior. They forced their thinking, culture and orientations on Africa using western education curriculum supported with military might. To make it worse, most Africans also think along this line by relegating traditional culture to the background while promoting foreign culture. English, French, Portuguese, etc. became official languages in school, workplace and at home. This becomes grave to the extent that anybody that speaks traditional language like Yoruba, Hausa and Ibo is tagged to be speaking vernacular. The Europeans made use of the traditional institutions for administrative convenience and rendered them useless during political independence era. They introduced 'modern' forms of governance in terms of institutions and leadership styles. It is interesting to note that these supposed 'modern' systems were not new. All institutions transplanted as modern governance hitherto existed in Nigerian indigenous system though in different names and dimensions.
dc.identifier.isbn978-978-8418-1-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/13605
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIgbariam: Division of General Studies, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu University (Formerly Anambra State University), Igbariam
dc.titleTraditional Institutions and Leadership among the Hausa/Fulani People of Northern Nigeria
dc.typeBook chapter

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