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Educating a Transnational Postcolonial Elite : United States University Scholarships for Nigerian Students (1961-1975)

Title data

Edeagu, Ngozi:
Educating a Transnational Postcolonial Elite : United States University Scholarships for Nigerian Students (1961-1975).
In: Diasporas : Circulations, Migrations, Histoire. Vol. 37 (2021) . - pp. 79-94.
ISSN 2431-1472
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/diasporas.6285

Project information

Project financing: Andere
Nigerian Tertiary Education Fund (TETFUND) Self

Abstract in another language

Post-independence Nigerian university students have constituted an integral part of the volume of international migrants to the United States. This paper furthers this conversation by unpacking the exclusionary national structures that fostered a novel post-colonial transnational Nigerian elite class in the 1960s and 1970s through the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. By scrutinising the backgrounds of scholarship participants recovered from fragmentary and transnational sources, this article argues that the programme reinforced existing dichotomies in Nigeria.

Abstract in another language

Les étudiants nigérians postcoloniaux ont pleinement participé aux migrations internationales en direction des États-Unis. Cet article s’intéresse aux structures d’exclusion qui, à travers l’African Scholarship Program of American Universities (ASPAU), ont favorisé l’émergence d’une nouvelle classe d’élite nigériane postcoloniale et transnationale dans les années 1960 et 1970. En examinant les antécédents des participants aux bourses d’études, recueillis à partir de sources fragmentaires et transnationales, cet article montre que le programme a participé au renforcement des dichotomies existantes au Nigeria.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: elite; women; higher education; transnational mobility; postcolonial
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Professor History of Africa > Professor History of Africa - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Joël Glasman
Graduate Schools > BIGSAS
Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies
Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Professor History of Africa
Graduate Schools
Result of work at the UBT: No
DDC Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 370 Education
900 History and geography > 900 History
900 History and geography > 960 History of Africa
900 History and geography > 990 History of other areas
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2022 12:21
Last Modified: 20 Dec 2022 06:47
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/73066