Nigerian Historical Studies

by E.A. Ayandele

Overview

First Published in 1979. The collection of writings brought together in this book was written within the last ten
years in different circumstances and for different purposes. However, they have one thing
in common: they were intended to shed new light, or strike new depths, or widen scope of
knowledge on some aspects of Nigerian history in the context of the author’s researches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135781002
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/20/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	305
File size:	376 KB

About the Author

E.A. Ayandele Professor of History and Vice-Chancellory University of Calabar

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, Preface, 1. How Truly Nigerian is Our Nigerian History?, 2. Britain and Yorubaland in the Nineteenth Century, 3. The Yoruba Civil Wars and the Dahomian Confrontation, 4. Observations on Some Social and Economic Aspects of Slavery in Pre-Colonial Northern Nigeria, 5. Background to the ‘Duel’ Between Crowther and Goldie on the Lower Niger 1857–85, 6. The Relations Between the Church Missionary Society and the Royal Niger Company, 1886–1900, 7. The Missionary Factor in Northern Nigeria, 1870–1918, 8. The Collapse of ‘Pagandom’ in Igboland, 9. The Missionary Factor in Brass, 1875–1900: A Study in Advance and Recession, 10. The Phenomenon of Visionary Nationalists in Pre-Colonial Nigeria, 11. The Colonial Church Question in Lagos Politics, 1905–11, 12. Lugard and Education in Nigeria, 1900–18, 13. The Ideological Ferment in Ijebuland, 1892–1943, Index