Part I. Introduction: 1. The colonial archives and alternative voices; 2. Narrating colonial Nigeria; Part II. Conquest and Colonization: 3. Peoples and states in the nineteenth century; 4. Prelude to colonization: trade and missions; 5. Lagos and the Niger area; 6.

Conquest and reactions; 7. Administrative experimentation, boundary formation, and colonial consolidation, 1900-1914; Part III. Colonial Societies: 8. The First World War and its aftermath; 9. The interwar years; 10. Indirect rule and the native administration; 11. Administration of justice, legal system, and law enforcement; 12. Colonial economy; 13.

Western education; 14. Social changes; 15. Women; 16. Religions; 17. Health and medicine; 18. Cultures; 19. Urbanization; 20. Creativity and aesthetics; Part IV.

Nationalism and Independence: 21. Reform movements before 1940; 22. The Second World War and its aftermath; 23. Trade unions and politics; 24. Party politics and personalities; 25. Constitutions and the emergence of federalism; 26. Regionalism and politics in the 1950s; Part V. Conclusion: 27.

Colonial legacies.sm and politics in the 1950s; Part V. Conclusion: 27. Colonial legacies.sm and politics in the 1950s; Part V. Conclusion: 27. Colonial legacies.sm and politics in the 1950s; Part V.

Conclusion: 27. Colonial legacies.