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Ironsi was Nigeria’s first military Head of State. He was killed in...
The Brigadier’s Daughter is a deeply personal and powerful memoir by...
With this book, Akande has stirred the hornets' nest and revelations...
A revolutionary officer in the Nigerian army, Colonel Victor Banjo and...
My Watch is more than the story of the Obasanjo presidency told by the...
Nigeria:The Birth of Africa’s Greatest Country chronicles the social...
It is said that the secrets of great men are in their stories. These...
Dele Giwa: The Unanswered Questions is a much-waited-for account from...
Religion Politics Power in Northern Nigeria is an analytic narrative of...
Casebook on Administrative Law is a compilation of cases and...
Military Leadership in Nigeria 1966-1979 examines the concept of...
The magical Booker Prize-winning novel that journeys between the land of...
This volume of autobiographical essays, now in paperback, is one of...
Nigeria:The Birth of Africa’s Greatest Country chronicles the social political events of colonial and immediate post-colonial Nigeria as recorded by Drum, the popular monthly magazine of those times.
Britain's Gulag is a gripping and harrowing account of one of the darkest chapters in British colonial history. Authored by Caroline Elkins, the book sheds light on the little-known atrocities committed by the British colonial administration during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya.
In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith, bestselling author of The State of Africa, follows the fortunes of Africa over a period of 5,000 years.
In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation.
The Looting Machine is a searing exposé of the global web of traders, bankers, middlemen, despots and corporate raiders that is pillaging Africa’s vast natural wealth.
In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth.
In this book, Soyinka argues that all claims that Africa has been explored are as premature as news of her imminent demise.
This is the story of how a whole continent has been robbed in broad daylight. And how it is still going on today. This is the story of the men who stole Africa.
The Ghettos of Pan-Africanism excavates the tortuous trajectory of the struggle for totalistic emancipation of black humanity and affirms the undiminished integrity of the axioms encapsulated in Pan Africanism as a philosophy of radical action for that elusive emancipation.
Economic growth does not demand a secret formula. Good development examples now abound in East Asia and further afield in others parts of Asia, and in Central America. But why then has Africa failed to realise its potential in half a century of independence?
In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them.
So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa’s rich diversity, communities, and histories.