In the early 1950s, as Nigeria approached independence from Great Britain, a vibrant literary culture developed in the vast and lively market of Onitsha, a city on the eastern bank of the Niger River.

Nigeria’s development crisis is often framed as a failure of leadership, corruption, or poor economic management. While these ...

A retired army officer, Mr Tony Nyiam, has described the current structure of the Nigeria Police Force as outdated, saying it was originally designed to ...

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in ...

Introduction: Firearms in twentieth-century colonial Africa -- "This destructive implement of European ingenuity": firearms, the Atlantic world, and technology transfer in precolonial Nigeria -- All ...

In our paper on Nigeria’s colonial history, we apply a different lens. We focus rather on British colonial rule through imperial companies. We argue that the British colonist did not conceive of or ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Nigeria ditched its indigenous national anthem in May and ...

When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved ...