ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's president on Thursday denied that government proposals to share out land to end a wave of violence over grazing rights amounted to "colonization" of fertile areas by his ...

In the early 1950s, as Nigeria approached independence from Great Britain, a vibrant literary culture developed in the vast and lively market of Onitsha, a city on the eastern bank of the Niger River.

Long before British ships docked on our shores, the land that would become Nigeria was not one nation, but a fine blend of thriving empires, kingdoms, and city-states, each with its own language, ...

Introduction: Firearms in twentieth-century colonial Africa -- "This destructive implement of European ingenuity": firearms, the Atlantic world, and technology transfer in precolonial Nigeria -- All ...