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University of California Press Urban Politics in Nigeria: A Study of Port Harcourt

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Urban Politics in Nigeria: A Study of Port Harcourt by Howard Wolpe probes a central question for postcolonial Africa: does modernization dilute communal politics―or intensify it? Focusing on Port Harcourt―an industrial boomtown created in 1913 and, by the 1960s, Nigeria’s second port and petroleum hub―Wölpe tracks how rapid migration, unemployment, and urban crowding produced new lines of cleavage even as “modern” roles spread. Rejecting simple tradition/modernity binaries, he shows communalism as a flexible, adaptive vehicle for competition over scarce resources―wealth, status, and power―in a culturally plural city. Ibos, non-Ibos, Catholics, Protestants; sub-regional Ibo factions; labor and managerial blocs: Port Harcourt mirrors Eastern Nigeria’s wider tensions while revealing how communal and noncommunal loyalties can coexist within the same actors and organizations. Through a rigorously structured historical and sociological analysis―covering city formation under colonial rule, African political consolidation, enfranchisement, and the combustible decade before the Nigerian–Biafran war―Wölpe demonstrates how modernization reorients diverse populations toward common rewards, heightening interaction, insecurity, and mobilization. Case studies of elections, labor struggles, religious confrontation, and the campaign for a Rivers State centered on Port Harcourt ground the book’s broader claims about mutable group boundaries and the emergence of new communal formations under modern pressures. Illuminating the much-discussed Ibo capacity for organizational innovation―at once “cosmopolitan” and “parochial”―this study reframes urban political development as a contest among overlapping identities activated by shifting situations. Urban Politics in Nigeria is essential for scholars of African politics, urban studies, and ethnicity, offering a clear theoretical alternative to dichotomous models and a compelling portrait of a city whose economic centrality made it pivotal to both Eastern Nigerian and federal political trajectories. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

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19 August 2022
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