LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN WESTERN NIGERIA: ABEOKUTA, 1830-1952.

About the Book

The purpose of this book, Local Government in Western Nigeria: Abeokuta, 1830-1952, A case study of exemplary institutional change, is to delineate the democratization process of governmental institutions in the city of Abeokuta, western Nigeria, during the 1940s and 1950s. The Egba at Abeokuta were chosen because they are an important ethnicity within the Yoruba, the then third most populous ethnic group in Nigeria. The period from 1939 to 1952 marks the time when western Nigeria was ruled via the native administration system - the local governmental structure instituted by the British. However, the historiography of the Egba is elongated to include the formation of Abeokuta in 1830. By 1952, government was nominally extended to every constituency in Abeokuta. This presaged the comprehensive democratization movement in Nigeria.

About the Author

Akinniyi Savage earned his doctorate degree in Leadership and Human Behavior, with a cognate in Organizational Behavior, from Alliant International University in San Diego, California. An inaugural member of the Mayor of San Diego’s Wetlands Advisory Board; he has also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Business and Economic Studies; as well as on the Research Review Board, Psychological Services, for the United States Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons Camp at Boron, California.