Educating a transnational postcolonial elite
Post-independence Nigerian university students have constituted an integral part of the volume of international migrants to the United States. This paper furthers this conversation by unpacking the exclusionary national structures that fostered a novel post-colonial transnational Nigerian elite clas...
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| description | Post-independence Nigerian university students have constituted an integral part of the volume of international migrants to the United States. This paper furthers this conversation by unpacking the exclusionary national structures that fostered a novel post-colonial transnational Nigerian elite class in the 1960s and 1970s through the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. By scrutinising the backgrounds of scholarship participants recovered from fragmentary and transnational sources, this article argues that the programme reinforced existing dichotomies in Nigeria. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-796f4f39d37a4c68ba4e64404acd2c762024-12-09T13:34:03ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiDiasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire1637-58232431-14722021-02-0137799410.4000/diasporas.6285Educating a transnational postcolonial eliteNgozi EdeaguPost-independence Nigerian university students have constituted an integral part of the volume of international migrants to the United States. This paper furthers this conversation by unpacking the exclusionary national structures that fostered a novel post-colonial transnational Nigerian elite class in the 1960s and 1970s through the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. By scrutinising the backgrounds of scholarship participants recovered from fragmentary and transnational sources, this article argues that the programme reinforced existing dichotomies in Nigeria.https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/6285womenhigher educationelitetransnational mobilitypostcolonial |
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| title | Educating a transnational postcolonial elite |
| title_full | Educating a transnational postcolonial elite |
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| title_short | Educating a transnational postcolonial elite |
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| topic | women higher education elite transnational mobility postcolonial |
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