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Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria

Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/157006611X586220 Journal of Religion in Africa 41 (2011) 311-316 brill.nl/jra Book Reviews Barnes, Andrew E., Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria , Rochester, Rochester University Press, 2009, 351pp., 13 978 1 58046 299 0, $84 (hard cover). Andrew Barnes’s Making Headway makes several scholarly contributions. It takes on the ambitious task of documenting several connected cultural aspects of the broad colonial and Christian missionary encounter in multi-ethnic, multi-religious Northern Nigeria. In the course of brilliantly accomplishing this task, Barnes succeeds in two related epistemological tasks. He sheds new, invaluable light on the character and depth of colonial cultural projects in Northern Nigeria. He also puts these projects in dialogue with wider theoretical and conceptual debates regarding the nature of civilizing missions, hegemony, social engineer- ing, cultural imperialism, cultural agency, and modernity. The book has two main preoccupations. One is to tell the conjoined and complementary stories of how Christian missionaries and European colonial administrators, through sev- eral cultural projects, idioms, and rhetoric, attempted to assimilate Northern Nigerian peo- ples into a cultural universe of European Enlightenment values, objects, and mannerisms. The second is the equally important http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4200
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1570-0666
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10.1163/157006611X586220
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/157006611X586220 Journal of Religion in Africa 41 (2011) 311-316 brill.nl/jra Book Reviews Barnes, Andrew E., Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria , Rochester, Rochester University Press, 2009, 351pp., 13 978 1 58046 299 0, $84 (hard cover). Andrew Barnes’s Making Headway makes several scholarly contributions. It takes on the ambitious task of documenting several connected cultural aspects of the broad colonial and Christian missionary encounter in multi-ethnic, multi-religious Northern Nigeria. In the course of brilliantly accomplishing this task, Barnes succeeds in two related epistemological tasks. He sheds new, invaluable light on the character and depth of colonial cultural projects in Northern Nigeria. He also puts these projects in dialogue with wider theoretical and conceptual debates regarding the nature of civilizing missions, hegemony, social engineer- ing, cultural imperialism, cultural agency, and modernity. The book has two main preoccupations. One is to tell the conjoined and complementary stories of how Christian missionaries and European colonial administrators, through sev- eral cultural projects, idioms, and rhetoric, attempted to assimilate Northern Nigerian peo- ples into a cultural universe of European Enlightenment values, objects, and mannerisms. The second is the equally important

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Published: Jan 1, 2011

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