Titlebook: Nigeria’s University Age; Reframing Decolonisa Tim Livsey Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 education.higher e

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Making Modern Space: Architecture and Decolonisation at University College Ibadan,nt about suitable university buildings remained elusive. Even when the buildings were complete, their meanings continued to shift in relation to changing decolonisation politics. The chapter shows how in practice colonial development was negotiated through debates about built environments.

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Multilateral Negotiations: Nigerian Universities, the United States, and the Cold War,t examines how American assistance was negotiated with Nigerian and British authorities, as well as between different American agencies. As with British interventions, Nigerian intermediaries played an important role in directing Cold War-era American assistance.

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,Introduction: Nigeria’s University Age,s such as universities. Livsey considers the earlier history of higher education in West Africa, and gives a survey of Nigerian higher education from 1930 to 1966. The introduction also outlines the book’s sources and structure.

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An Imperial Frame: Universities and the West African Roots of Colonial Development,g a university at Ibadan. Livsey argues that Ibadan was not purely a colonial development project, but was shaped by deeply rooted West African visions of development. The university was the outcome of a lengthy negotiation shaped by Nigeria’s position within the British empire.

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Conclusion,enge them. The conclusion comments on the history of Nigerian universities since the 1960s, including the problems they encountered as the Nigerian state contracted and their prospects for the future.

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Book 201730s to the 1960s. Using political, cultural and spatial approaches, the book shows that Nigerians and foreign donors alike saw the nation’s new universities as vital institutions: a means to educate future national leaders, drive economic growth, and make a modern Nigeria. Universities were vibrant

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