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Peter Ekeh Quotes

1937–2020 Nigeria

Peter Palmer Ekeh (1937–2020) was a Nigerian political sociologist and scholar whose work examined colonialism, political institutions, social structures and public morality in Africa. He taught at the University of Ibadan and later at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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The civic public can never be impoverished.

Many of Africa's political problems are due to the dialectical relationships between the two publics.

The primordial public is moral and operates on the same moral imperatives as the private realm.

Most educated Africans are citizens of two publics in the same society.

The civic public is historically associated with the colonial administration and has become identified with popular politics in post-colonial Africa.

It was a very good piece that discussed complicated behaviours of individuals at different levels of their actions.

The experiences of colonialism in Africa have led to the emergence of a unique historical configuration in modern post-colonial Africa: the existence of two publics instead of one public.

I began my graduate education in the Sociology Department at Stanford University, California, USA in 1965, fresh from University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Ekeh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.