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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...
Most accounts of Nigeria’s colonisation were written by British officials, presenting it as a noble civilising mission to rid Africans of barbaric superstition and corrupt tribal leadership. Thanks to this skewed writing of history, many Nigerians today still have Empire nostalgia and view the colonial period through rose-tinted glasses.
There was not a single school in Lagos and a slave market stood in the centre of the town. Yet by 1956, thousands of happy, well dressed children greeted Queen Elizabeth as she drove through the streets of this large and prosperous town.
Gandhi's autobiography tells not only of his struggles and inspirations but also speaks frankly of his failures. It is a powerful and enduring account of an extraordinary life.
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.
The New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European Empires, outlining the deliberate terror and suffering wrought during every stage of the expansion, and destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of science, industry and politics.
“Growing up I saw first hand the oppressive and exploitative character of the Fulani-controlled Nigerian state. This further confirmed to me that something fundamental has been wrong with the British conscripted Nigerian state of irreconcilable forces. A creation primarily to service mainly British and Fulani interests rather than those of the indigenous...
A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.
In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them.