Guns and society in colonial Nigeria : firearms, culture, and public order / Saheed Aderinto. by Aderinto, Saheed

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The female king of colonial Nigeria : Ahebi Ugbabe / Nwando Achebe. by Achebe, Nwando, 1970-

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The women's war of 1929 : gender and violence in colonial Nigeria. by Matera, Dr Marc

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The Man-Leopard Murder Mysteries : History and Society in Colonial Nigeria. by Pratten, David

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When sex threatened the state : illicit sexuality, nationalism, and politics in colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 / Saheed Aderinto. by Aderinto, Saheed

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Children and childhood in colonial Nigerian histories / edited by Saheed Aderinto.

Table of Contents: “…"500 children missing in Lagos": child kidnapping and public anxiety in colonial Nigeria, /…”
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Colonial caring : a history of colonial and post-colonial nursing / edited by Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins.

Table of Contents: “…Changes in nuring and missions in post-colonial Nigeria /…”
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The Nigerian cocoa industry and the international economy in the 1930s : a world-systems approach / by Olisa Muojama. by Muojama, O. G.

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One; The International Economy; Africa in the Crisis and Catastrophe of the 1930s; A Note on Sources and Methodology; Chapters in Brief; Chapter Two; The Rise of the World Cocoa Trade; The Penetration of European Capital and the Beginnings of the Cocoa Culture in Nigeria; Cocoa Production and Processing in Colonial Nigeria; The Effects of Cocoa Production on Pre-colonial and Colonial Nigeria; The Organization of the Cocoa Trade in Colonial Nigeria; Conclusion; Chapter Three…”
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Entrepreneurship in Africa : a historical approach / edited by Moses E. Ochonu.

Table of Contents: “…Ochonu -- Women entrepreneurs, gender, traditions, and the negotiation of power relations in colonial Nigeria / Gloria Chuku -- From artisanal brew to a booming industry : an economic history of pito : brewing among northern Ghanaian migrant women in southern Ghana / Isidore Lobnibe -- Interconnections between female entrepreneurship and technological innovation in the Nigerian context / Gloria Emeagwali -- Benin imperialism and entrepreneurship in northeast Yorubaland from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century / Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Taking control : Sonatrach and the Algerian decolonization process / Marta Musso -- Business after hours : the entrepreneurial ventures of Nigerian working class seamen / Lynn Schler -- Ace boxing promoter : "super human power," boxing, and sports entrepreneurship in colonial Nigeria, 1945-1960 / Michael J. …”
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Cinematic independence : constructing the big screen in Nigeria / Noah Tsika. by Tsika, Noah, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : screening Nigeria -- "The Nigeria solution" : creative destruction and the making of a media capital -- Enugu in technicolor : independent production in late-colonial Nigeria -- Ends and beginnings : rebuilding the big screen -- Exhibiting Nollywood (and Hollywood) : multiplexes, amusement parks, and the economy of experiences in today's Nigeria -- Conclusion : "affective ambience" : New Nollywood and the persistence of Disneyfication.…”
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The forger's tale : the search for Odeziaku / Stephanie Newell. by Newell, Stephanie, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Forging ahead: the secret gentleman of Ardwick Green -- The palm oil trader's view -- Fragments of Oscar Wilde in colonial Nigeria -- "Uranian" love in West Africa -- The politics of naming : Igbo perspectives on Stuart-Young -- The strange toleration of Stuart-Young in the African-owned press of Nigeria -- A class apart : "Johnny Jones" of Back Kay Street -- The production of a poet : Stuart-Young's verse and its readers.…”
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The education of a British-protected child : essays / Chinua Achebe. by Achebe, Chinua

Ibadan Market Women and Politics, 1900-1995. by Oladejo, Mutiat Titilope

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Yoruba Terms; 1 Introduction; 2 Women, Markets, and Politics in Precolonial Ibadan; 3 Ibadan Market Women and Politics in Colonial Nigeria; 4 Market Women Organizations and Politics in the Period of Internal Self-Rule, 1951-1960; 5 Market Women and Postindependence Realities, 1960-1995; 6 Market Women, Politics, and Development, 1960-1995; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.…”
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Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth : comparative perspectives on theory and practice / edited by Richard T. Ashcroft and Mark Bevir.

Table of Contents: “…/ Rochana Bajpai -- Secularism in India : a "Gandhian" approach / Farah Godrej -- Contesting multiculturalism : federalism and unitarism in late colonial Nigeria / Wale Adebanwi -- Arrested multiculturalisms : race, capitalism and state formation in Malaysia and Singapore / Daniel P.S. …”
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State-directed development : political power and industrialization in the global periphery / Atul Kohli. by Kohli, Atul

Table of Contents: “…Dashed expectations: Nigeria: Colonial Nigeria: origins of a neopatrimonial state and a commodity-exporting economy -- Sovereign Nigeria: neopatrimonialism and failure of industrialization -- Conclusion: understanding states and state intervention in the global periphery.…”
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Things Fall Apart / Annenberg Learner (Firm).

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Developing Africa : Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism. by Hodge, Joseph M.

Table of Contents: “…9 'Keystone of progress' and mise en valeur d'ensemble: British and French colonial discourses on education for de10 Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940-55; 11 Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa; PART IV Discourse-analytical and literary perspectives on colonial de; 12 The world the Portuguese developed: racial politics, luso-tropicalism and development discourse in late Portug; 13 The notion of 'développement' in French colonial discourses: changes in discursive practices and their socia.…”
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Moving home : gender, place, and travel writing in the early Black Atlantic / Sandra Gunning. by Gunning, Sandra

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Environment and Economics in Nigeria / Toyin Falola and Adam Paddock. by Falola, Toyin

Table of Contents: “…From Oil Rivers to the Niger Delta: The Paradoxes of Domination and Resistance in Colonial Nigeria: Charles Ukeje.…”
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In the Linguistic Paradise A Festschrift for E. Nolue Emenanjo / Ozo-mekuri Ndimele (ed.).

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 1.1 Linguistic Policy in Colonial Era; 1.2 Linguistic Situation in colonial and Post-colonial Nigeria; 1.3 The National policy on Language Education and the 1979, 1989 and 1999 Constitutions' Linguistic Policy; 1.4 Making the 1978, 1989, 1995 and 1999 constitutions' Linguistic Policy Relevant to Nigeria's Public and Social Life in Modern Age; Conclusion; Footnotes; References; 7. …”
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