A History Of Nigeria

Author : Toyin Falola,Matthew M. Heaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139472036

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A History of Nigeria by Toyin Falola,Matthew M. Heaton Pdf

Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.

Author : Elizabeth Allo Isichei
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008157185

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A History of Nigeria by Elizabeth Allo Isichei Pdf

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008929403

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History of Nigeria: Nigeria in the nineteenth century by Toyin Falola Pdf

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008929395

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History of Nigeria: Nigeria before 1800 AD by Toyin Falola Pdf

Author : Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840767

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A History of the Republic of Biafra by Samuel Fury Childs Daly Pdf

An accessible study demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country's long experience of crime.

Author : Richard Bourne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780329086

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Nigeria by Richard Bourne Pdf

'If you want to understand Nigeria's history in one succinct go, this is a very good choice.' Noo Saro-Wiwa Known as the African Giant, Nigeria's story is complex and often contradictory. How, despite the ravages of colonialism, civil war, ongoing economic disappointment and most recently the Boko Haram insurgency, has the country managed to stay together for a hundred years? Why, despite an abundance of oil, mineral and agricultural wealth, have so many of its people remained in poverty? These are the key questions explored by Richard Bourne in this remarkable and wide-ranging account of Nigeria's history, from its creation in 1914 to the historic 2015 elections and beyond. Featuring a wealth of original research and interviews, this is an essential insight into the shaping of a country where, despite the seemingly dashed optimism that was raised at independence, there still remains hope 'the Nigeria project' may still succeed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Africana-Fep
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : IND:30000001027352

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A History of Nigeria for Schools and Colleges by Anonim Pdf

Author : Max Siollun
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191172326X

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What Britain Did to Nigeria by Max Siollun Pdf

A revelatory account of British imperialism's shameful impact on Africa's most populous state.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313306822

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The History of Nigeria by Toyin Falola Pdf

Presents a history of Nigeria from its earliest beginnings to the present, discussing its geography, political institutions, economic structure, culture, and ethnic groups.

Author : Toyin Falola,Saheed Aderinto
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580463584

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Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History by Toyin Falola,Saheed Aderinto Pdf

The book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist historiography and the leading themes. The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by Nigerians in thecontext of the rise and decline of African nationalist historiography. Given the diminishing share in the global output of literature on Africa by African historians, it has become crucial to reintroduce Africans into historicalwriting about Africa. As the authors attempt here to rescue older voices, they also rehabilitate a stale historiography by revisiting the issues, ideas, and moments that produced it. This revivalism also challenges Nigerian historians of the twenty-first century to study the nation in new ways, to comprehend its modernity, and to frame a new set of questions on Nigeria's future and globalization. In spite of current problems in Nigeria and its universities, that historical scholarship on Nigeria (and by extension, Africa) has come of age is indisputable. From a country that struggled for Western academic recognition in the 1950s to one that by the 1980s had emerged as one of the most studied countries in Africa, Nigeria is not only one of the early birthplaces of modern African history, but has also produced members of the first generation of African historians whose contributions to the development and expansion of modern African history is undeniable. Like their counterparts working on other parts of the world, these scholars have been sensitive to the need to explore virtually all aspects of Nigerian history. The book highlights the careers of some of Nigeria's notable historians of the first and second generation. Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Saheed Aderinto is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University.

Author : Charles William James Orr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105083177662

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The Making of Northern Nigeria by Charles William James Orr Pdf

Author : Vincent Hiribarren
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849044745

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A History of Borno by Vincent Hiribarren Pdf

Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Borno, renowned throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released 'migrated archives'. As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is the permanence of its boundaries-its territorial integrity-which dates back centuries, and the political and social identities that such borders framed in the minds of its inhabitants.

Author : A. Babs Fafunwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429847127

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History of Education in Nigeria by A. Babs Fafunwa Pdf

Originally published in 1974, a comprehensive history of Nigerian Education, from early times right through to the time of publication, had long been needed by all concerned with Education in Nigeria, students, teachers and educational administrators. No one was better qualified than Professor Fafunwa to provide such a book, and in doing so he gave due emphasis to the beginnings of Education in its three main stages of indigenous, Muslim and Christian Education. Nigerian Education had been considered all too often as a comparatively recent phenomenon, but this book points out from the start that ‘Education is as old as Man himself in Africa’ and that both Islam and Christianity were comparative newcomers in the field. A historical treatment of these three strands which have combined to make up the modern Educational system was vital to a clear understanding of what was needed for the future, and most of the first half of the book is concerned with these Educational beginnings. The imposing of a foreign colonial system on this framework did not always lead to a happy fusion of the systems, and the successes and the failures are examined in detail. There was no shortage of documentary evidence in the form of reports and statistics during the decades prior to publication, but this evidence was frequently scattered and inaccessible to the student, so that the author’s careful selection of key evidence and reports, often drawn from his own personal experience, will be invaluable for those wishing to trace the development of Education in Nigeria up to the early 1970s. A knowledge of the history and development of the Nigerian Education system, of the numerous and intensely varied personalities and beliefs which have combined and often conflicted to shape it, is indispensable to all students in colleges and universities studying to become teachers. It is this knowledge that Professor Fafunwa set out to provide, drawing on his wide experience as teacher writer and educationalist.

Author : Stephen Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190494315

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This Present Darkness by Stephen Ellis Pdf

Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made little appeal to the young Nigerian'. This book traces the origins of Nigerian organised crime to the last years of colonial rule, when nationalist politicians acquired power at a regional level. In need of funds for campaigning, they offered government contracts to foreign businesses in return for kickbacks, in a pattern that recurs to this day. Political corruption encouraged a wider disrespect for the law that spread throughout Nigerian society. When the country's oil boom came to an end in the early 1980s, young Nigerian college graduates headed abroad, eager to make money by any means. Nigerian crime went global at the very moment new criminal markets were emerging all over the world.

Author : Wiebe Karl Boer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nation-building
ISBN : 9788457975

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A Story of Heroes and Epics by Wiebe Karl Boer Pdf