Muslims and Christians in Nigeria
Sanford Silverburg, who teaches at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, wrote to recommend Murray Last's essay, Muslims and Christians in Nigeria: An economy of political panic.It appears in The Round Table, The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 392 October 2007.
Murray Last is an emeritus professor at University College London. He earned his PhD at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He's an expert on the history of Muslims in Nigeria.
The following abstract of the article appeared at the Informaworld web site: "This essay offers an alternative analysis of Muslim - Christian relations in Nigeria, rejecting a 'clash-of-civilizations' approach as both too generalized and politically self-serving. A more nuanced analysis might focus on the social variables in the different sites of conflict and on the underlying factors, both historical and current. It is argued that, for the most part, Muslims and Christians have lived peacefully alongside each other in Nigeria for a century now."
Intriguing.
Finding this journal may not be easy. It's not online and neither of the college libraries here in Northfield has it.
Ibrahim Sheme, the editor of Leadership, a newspaper in Abuja, posted an interview with Murray Last on his blog, Bahaushe Mai Ban Haushi! (16 January 2008). It's an interesting profile of the scholar.
Labels: civil society, cleavages, Nigeria
posted by Ken Wedding @ 1:38 PM
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Sanford Silverburg wrote that he got a copy of Murray Last's article from the British journal The Round Table by asking the author for it.
He received a .pdf copy and he forwarded it to me.
I'll pass it along to you if you ask. E-mail me or use the "Comment" feature.
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