Counting the tiger's teeth : an African teenager's story /

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Counting the Tiger's Teeth narrates a crucial turning point in Nigerian history, the Agbekoya rebellion ("Peasants Reject Poverty") of 1968-70, as chronicled by Toyin Falola, reflecting on his firsthand experiences as a teenage witness to history. Falola, the foremost scholar of Afric...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Falola, Toyin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Falola, Toyin > Childhood and youth.
Falola, Toyin.
Since 1960
Nigerian Americans > Biography.
College teachers > Texas > Austin > Biography.
Américains d'origine nigériane > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Childhood and youth of a person
College teachers.
Nigerian Americans.
Social conditions.
Nigeria > Biography.
Nigeria > History > 1960-
Nigeria > Social conditions > 1960-
Nigeria > Histoire > 1960-
Nigeria > Conditions sociales > 1960-
Nigeria.
Texas > Austin.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Ogun's gift
  • Pouches and pregnancies
  • Compound of mysteries
  • Not peace but a sword
  • Sworn to secrecy
  • Cocoa politics
  • Locust invasions
  • The Harmattan war
  • Rebel gangs
  • The fall of Agodi
  • Esu at the crossroads.

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