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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...

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This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...

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The past of the Yoruba of West Africa, who form the population of the Western State of Nigeria, must be...

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The compilation contained in the following pages has been made with the object of rendering available to those interested, in...

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Much has been said and written about the Nigerian Civil War and its antecedents. Any observers and audiences have already...

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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...