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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The history of the lands now forming Nigeria stretches back thousands of years.
Chapter 3: By the nineteenth century, the slave trade stood as the backbone of the Nigerian region’s economy.
Chapter 4: The nineteenth century was marked by profound social, political, and economic change throughout the entire Nigerian region.
Chapter 5: British colonial rule in the region began in the nineteenth century, leading to the creation of modern Nigeria.
Chapter 6: Early twentieth-century Nigeria underwent massive social, economic, and political transformations under British colonialism.
Chapter 7: In 1960, nationalist resistance to British colonialism culminated in Nigerian independence.
Chapter 8: Post-independence Nigeria in the 1960s was marked by corruption, interethnic tensions, and civil war.
Chapter 9: Economic reliance on oil and rampant corruption plagued Nigeria throughout the 1970s.
Chapter 10: After suffering under three military dictators, Nigerians were granted democratic rights once again in 1999.
Chapter 11: The 2007 Nigerian elections witnessed, for the first time, a peaceful transfer of power from one civilian to another.
Description
A History of Nigeria (2008) documents the millennia-long history of the areas that make up the modern nation of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country. Going on an epic journey from the region’s precolonial past right up to the country’s recent transition toward democracy, the authors document the riveting history of a nation and, of course, its people – whose future looks bright.
Who Should Listen
- Students of history, international relations or politics
- Curious individuals wanting to discover the riveting story of Africa’s most populous nation
- Nigerians – or people of Nigerian descent – who would like to learn more about the country’s history