This book is about the British campaigns against the new slaveries of European imperialism in Africa in the late nineteenth...
The first Dictionary of the Yoruba language was published in the year 1843, compiled by Samuel (afterwards Bishop) Crowther. This...
I know when I was born; I mean to say that there are some people who know when I was...
This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...
In the beginning, ibadàn started as a settlement of some radicals from nearby Yorúbá towns. Historians do not completely agree...
This book is dedicated to the memory of DELE GIWA and BALA...
The past of the Yoruba of West Africa, who form the population of the Western State of Nigeria, must be...
METHODS OF RULING NATIVE RACES. IF continuity and decentralisation are, as I have said, the first and most important conditions...
During my third extended research trip in Kétu, Bénin, in the fall of 2006, when I asked people to explain...
1.1 BACKGROUND
1.1.1 The Federal Republic Nigeria with a population of approximately 170 million, located in West Africa,...
The compilation contained in the following pages has been made with the object of rendering available to those interested, in...
When Nigeria gained independence from the UK in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and the most educated...
Much has been said and written about the Nigerian Civil War and its antecedents. Any observers and audiences have already...
The Body and Other Parties: Stories. Carmen Maria Machado. From Everand. The Constant Gardener: A Novel. John le Carré. 268286630-Oruko-Yoruba-Adeoye
...The dominant themes in rural West African economic history during the past two hundred years are usually held to be...
The pattern of Nigerian politics was perhaps radically altered when at the 1958 Constitutional Conference in London, the decision was...
Potsherd pavements have long been a subject of interest in the archaeology of West Africa (Nzewunwa 1989). In Yorubaland (western...
For students of settler colonialism in the modern era, Africa and America represent two polar opposites. Africa is the continent...