The 1945 General Strike in Northern Nigeria and its Role in Anti-Colonial Nationalism

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dc.contributor.advisorRousseau, Nicky
dc.contributor.authorYohanna, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-20T09:49:18Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-26T06:48:38Z
dc.date.available2021-04-20T09:49:18Z
dc.date.available2024-03-26T06:48:38Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis follows the course of the Nigerian general strike of 1945 in the Northern provinces, a previously under-researched region. It examines some of the many ways in which the strike has been understood in the academy, focusing in particular on the works of Alkasum Abba, Kazah-Toure and Bill Freund who have regarded the strike as well supported and successful. By employing Ian Phimister and Brian Raftopoulos's analysis of the 1948 general strike in colonial Zimbabwe, this thesis re-reads the narrative of success by bringing to the fore previosuly ignored issues relating to questions of planning, tactics, propaganda, solidarity, leadership, and execution of the strike. This re-reading reveals a considerably more varied and uneven response across and within the different categories of workers than has been previously assumed by scholars. Such unevenness challenges notions of "solidarity" and "steadfastness" attributed to the industrial action, with implications for how workers struggles have been incorporated into wider narratives of decolonization and anti-colonial nationalism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9688
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectNationalism Labour Political Unionism General Strike Northern Nigeriaen_US
dc.subjectAnti-colonial Nationalismen_US
dc.subjectLabouren_US
dc.subjectPolitical Unionismen_US
dc.subjectGeneral Strikeen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Nigeriaen_US
dc.subjectWorkers Unionen_US
dc.subjectColonial Economic Re-organizationen_US
dc.subjectIndustrial Disputeen_US
dc.subjectHistoriographyen_US
dc.titleThe 1945 General Strike in Northern Nigeria and its Role in Anti-Colonial Nationalismen_US

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