Explore how the sale of Nigeria for £865,000 to the British in 1899 marked a significant turning point in the nation's ...

From the country's borders and state structure, to the present conflicts, Falola powerfully reflects on the lasting consequences of British intervention in the affairs of Nigerian states and ...

A northern leader’s comment that the British edict of 1914 expired 100 years later has sparked debates on Nigeria’s continued ...

December 2, 2024: Fighting broke out again in central Nigeria, with several dead and many more wounded. Fulani raiders continue to attack farmers with abandon. Soldiers are unable to be everywhere at ...

The colonial police ... that the police were distrusted by a majority of the citizens in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya, all former British colonies. Some people, like Okechukwu Nwanguma of Noprin ...

Dr. Bright Alozie of Portland State University considers himself a historian of ordinary voices. His newly published book ...

People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they ... Cameroun and Somalia became independent of British rule. Nigeria, because of its size and strong regional power bases ...

Acclaimed Igbo historian Adiele Afigbo described the slave trade in south-eastern Nigeria which lasted until the late 1940s and early 1950s as one of the best kept secrets of the British colonial ...

His newly published book explores petitions and the trend of petition writing by Igbo individuals to British officials in colonial southeastern Nigeria to gain a sense of what it was like to live ...

Under British colonial indirect rule, Nigeria had been divided into 24 provinces. For administrative reasons, each province comprised divisions and districts. Abeokuta province in southern Nigeria ...