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The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History

The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa’s most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of the national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious communities, economic partnerships, and immigrant and diasporic cultures. Consisting of thirty-six chapters, the Handbook is separated into five major sections, starting with the historiography of Nigeria—namely, the systems of knowledge handed down by the indigenous, Islamic, colonial, and postcolonial traditions. From that foundation, the chapters cover the development of nomadic and agricultural societies, the colonial era, the emergence of a modern Nigeria, and the impact of Nigerians outside of the country’s borders.