What Britain did to Nigeria : a short history of conquest and rule
Siollun, Max2021
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Most accounts of Britain's rule over Nigeria were written by British officials who presented colonialism as a civilising mission to rid Africans of barbaric superstition and corrupt tribal leadership; to educate them and convert them to Christianity. Yet - strangely for a colonised people openly described this way by their oppressors - many Nigerians today still view their country's time in the Empire through rose-tinted glasses. Max Siollun offers a bold rethink: a clear-eyed, unromanticised history of colonial Nigeria. He asserts that colonialism was not a system with benevolent intentions.
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London : Hurst & Company, [2021].
Collation:
xi, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781787383845 (hbk)1787383849 (hbk)
Dewey class:
966.903 SIO
LC class:
DT515.7
Language:
English
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BRN:
390587