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  Edited by Dapo Adelugba and Philip Ogo Ujomu

ISBN: 2-86978-211-X (ISBN 13: 9782869782112), 172 pages, January 2008

Rethinking Security in Nigeria adopts an alternate conceptual and methodological framework for rethinking national security in Nigeria by using the humanities’ multidisciplinary perspective against the backdrop of the hitherto restrictive analysis of the nature of national security. By expounding the largely unexplored cosmological, conceptual, ethical and aesthetic dimensions as key contributors to national survival and social integration, the volume argues systematically for a basic redefinition of the meanings of security, the value of life, government action and social re-engineering in order to create a new system of social order and integration. The authors attempt to extend the boundaries of previous theorizing on security by identifying alternate ethical and aesthetic approaches to national reconciliation and human development in present-day Nigeria, which faces major security challenges requiring the clarification of the basis for developing a just and harmonious society.

The study is a contribution to the quest for defining the vital socio-cultural norms and doctrinal imperatives needed for responsible cooperative human action. It examines the roles of dominant works of philosophy, literature, plays and performances in the creation of a philosophical basis for political stability and social reconciliation in the society. It extends the boundaries of previous aesthetic studies and redefines the roles of ethics and aesthetics as crucial contributors to security, human development and world civilisation.

Editors

Dapo Adelugba, a former Chair and Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, is a leading authority on Theatre Practice and Development especially Theatre History, Theory and Criticism of the Arts and Approaches to the Theatre Arts in Nigeria. He is currently a visiting professor at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Philip Ogo Ujomu, PhD is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is interested in social philosophy, African philosophy, ethics, security issues and aspects of public policy. He has published some works in these areas.

Contents

1. Introduction: A Preface to th Understanding of the Aesthetic and Ethical Imperatives for Viable National Security in the Post-colonial African State
Dapo Adelugba

2. The Bounds of Security Theorising: Envisioning DiscursiveInputs for the Rectification of a Post-colonial Situation
Philip Ogo Ujomu

3. An Aesthetic Theorising of the Challenge of National Security in the Post-colonial Context
Philip Ogo Ujomu and Dapo Adelugba

4. Rethinking Traditional Security in Africa: The Reconstruction of the Cosmological Foundations of Security
Dapo Adelugba, Philip Ogo Ujomu and Felix Amanor-Boadu

5. Cultural Dimensions of the National Security Problem
Olusegun Oladiran and Irene Omolola Adadevoh

6. The Gender Dimensions of the National Security and Human Security Problematic: Core Theoretical, Conceptual and Historical Issues 
Irene Omolola Adadevoh

7. Rethinking Ethical Security in the Light of European Institutional Security and Integration Strategies: The Quest for Methodological Convergence
Aduke G. Adebayo, Philip Ogo Ujomu, Dapo Adelugba and Irene Omolola Adadevoh

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