"In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of…
"This study provides, for the first time, an examination of slavery and its legacy in the Yoruba and incompletely Islamicized periphery of the Sokoto Caliphate and of Northern Nigeria. It links the story of the decline of slavery with the emergence of a small-scale peasantry, an…
Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting, and packed with telling anecdotes, Allen's memoir is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the musician and scholar Michael E.…
Right in the center of Lagos -- Highlife time -- The sky was the limit -- God's own country -- Swinging like hell! -- Everything scatter -- Progress -- When one road close -- Paris blues -- No end to business.
Right in the center of Lagos -- Highlife time -- The sky was the limit -- God's own country -- Swinging like hell! -- Everything scatter -- Progress -- When one road close -- Paris blues -- No end to business.
Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat.
Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting, and packed with telling anecdotes, Allen's memoir is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the musician and scholar Michael E.…
Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat.
"Steve Itugbu, for many years a foreign policy aide to Obasanjo, draws on an extensive corpus of official documents, interviews, unpublished material and first-hand experience to explore the president's multi-faceted personality in depth. In so doing, Itugbu demonstrates that Ni…
