The suggestion to produce this volume was first made in 1987 and actual work on the project started in 1988. At that time, all the authors (except one who had a

A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.

Nigerian art has long been sought after by art collectors in France. Accompanying an important exhibition, Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections explore

Examines twenty years of French military interventions in Chad and Hissène Habré's rise to power between 1960 and 1982.

His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Si