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I know when I was born; I mean to say that there are some people who know when I was...

Artists the world over shape knowledge and material into works of unique historical importance. The artists of ancient Ife, ancestral...

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

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

THIS ESSAY CONSIDERS one of the most important Yoruba cosmological referents, the plan of the capital Ile- Ife and its...

THEORISTS of Indirect Rule assumed a relationship between colonial strategy and the degree of political development in African tribal societies.1...

Until quite recently, all the known historical traditions about the origin of the Eweka dynasty of Benin were unanimous in...

The history of many places tells the story of wars waged by the countries in question ......

In the beginning, ibadàn started as a settlement of some radicals from nearby Yorúbá towns. Historians do not completely agree...

This paper is an attempt to examine the status of Islam in Oyo and its environs1 in the era of...

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,...

For students of settler colonialism in the modern era, Africa and America represent two polar opposites. Africa is the continent...

Lugard asserted that the direct cause of Africa’s partition was France’s search for rehabilitation in North and West Africa, following...

Being the speech of Chief Bisi Akande at Offa on Saturday, October 9, 2010 as the Guest Speaker at the...

Historians of Nigeria have been curious for many years about the relationship between the various states of the southern zone...

The Yoruba, numbering over 20 million, are the second-largest language group in Nigeria and one of the most populous and...

Since the 1982 publication of Nina Mba's study of women's political activity in southern Nigeria, scholarship on Nigerian women has...