30 BOOKS TO START YOUR JOURNEY TO UNDERSTANDING NIGERIA/ AFRICA HISTORY

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So in launching this website, I want to answer one question that I get regularly which is, what books do you recommend or have read that can help in understanding Nigeria/Africa History?

So here are my Suggestions on Books to give you an understanding of Nigeria and African History, to give you a head start on the what Nigerian/ Africa History covers.

FYI: this is my opinion, as these books includes  the ones I have  used, the ones I have in my library, the ones that was recommended to me overtime , I recognized that we have more thousands of Materials which includes the ones i cannot remember. Or have not seen before.  So I will focus on the ones I have used or that was once recommended to me  So in  Alphabetical order here you go

1. Adesina (ed) C.O. 2017. Nigeria in the Twentieth Century: History, Governance and Society, Ibadan, Connel Publications. 
2. Coleman J.S. 1971. Nigeria Background to Nationalism. Berkeley, University of California.
3. Cambridge History of Africa Vol 1 -12
4. Eghosa E. Osaghae 2002. The Crippled Giant. Ibadan :John Archers Limited
5. Ekundare R.O. 1973.  An Economic History of Nigeria 1860-1960.  Great Britain: The Chauncer Press Ltd
6. Falola T.  and Heaton M. 2008. A History of Nigeria. Cambridge University Press
7. Falola T.  and Genova A. 2009. Historical Dictionary of Nigeria( African Historical Dictionaries). Scare crow Press.
8. Falola T (ed), 1987. Britain and Nigeria: Exploitation or Development? Zed,
9. Falola, T (eds) History of Nigeria Book 1 ,2 and 3. Falola T, (eds). 1991. History of Nigeria Book 3: Nigeria in the twentieth Century.
10. Falola T, (ed), 1988 Nigeria Under the British, 1900-1960, Obafemi Awolowo University Press.
11. Ikime, O, 1980.(ed) Groundwork of Nigerian History, Heinemann.
12. Ikime O. The Fall of Nigeria: The British Conquest. London. Heinemann.
13. Mackintosh, J. O. (1966). Nigerian Government and Politics. Evanston:  North western University Press.   
14. Ojiako,  J.  O.  (1981).  Nigeria:  Yesterday,  Today,  And  ?  Onitsha:    Africana Educational Publishers
15. Olusanya, G. O (1973). The Second World War and Politics in Nigeria,  1939-1953. London: Evans Brothers.
16. Oyediran, O. 1979 (ed). Nigerian Government & Politics under Military  Rule 1966-1979.  London: Macmillan.  
17. Isichei, Elizabeth, 1983,A History of Nigeria, Longman, 1983.
18. Ogbogbo, C.B.N (ed). 2011. Africa Perspective in Africa History,  Ibadan: Book wright Publishers.
19. S.U Fwatswak and J.W Akinwunmi. 2014. The House that “ Lugard Built” Perspective on Nigeria’s First Century: The Gains and The Agenda for the Future.   Jos: HSN  , Jos University Press Limited.
20. Oyebade A. Ed. 2003. A Retrospect on  Colonial Nigeria. The Foundation of Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola. . Eritrea. Africa Word Press INC
21. Perkins W.A. Stembridge. 1962. Nigeria: A descriptive Geography. Oxford. Oxford University
22. Sofela B., Edo V.O, and Olaniyi R.O (eds ), 2013. Nigeria at 50: Politics, Society and Development. Ibadan, John  Archer Publisher.
23. Tarikh. 1970. Indirect Rule in British Africa, Vol. 3, No. 3, Longman
24. Tamuno, T. N 1966. Nigeria and Elective Representatives, 1923-1947    London
25. Tamuno. T.N. 1972. The Evolution of the Nigerian State: The Southern Phase 1898-1914. Longman. Ibadan History Series.
26. Oyebade.A.   ed 2003. The Foundation of Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola. Ed. Eritrea: Africa Word Press INC.

I am sure you are wondering how you can get your hands on this book?

You can purchase some of them from online book stores eg. Good reads, Amazon’s etc.

You can also purchase on physical book shops such as University of Ibadan book shop

You can also visit university libraries.

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