Ancient & Pre-Colonial Nigeria
Histories of Nigerian kingdoms, empires, trade routes, and cultures before colonial rule, including Nok, Benin, Oyo, Sokoto, and Kanem-Bornu.
The Jukun and Kwararafa, Power and Political Tradition in the Middle Benue
The history of the Jukun and the Kwararafa, also known as Kororofa, confederacy occupies an important place in the political development of the Middle...
The Niger Delta People, Identity, Geography, and Historical Realities
The Niger Delta is one of Africa’s most distinctive human landscapes, a vast wetland where rivers, tides, and mangrove forests shaped how people lived,...
Power and Office in the Nupe Kingdom
The Nupe Kingdom, centred in the middle Niger region, developed a political system that joined royal authority with ranked offices and local leadership. By...
Kinship and Authority in Tivland, How Lineage Shaped Power in a Decentralised Society
The Tiv of central Nigeria developed one of the most documented decentralised political systems in West Africa. In the precolonial period, Tiv communities operated...
Aku Uka and Sacred Kingship in Wukari
The political history of the Jukun people in the Middle Benue region is closely tied to two important historical formations, Kwararafa and the later...
The Tiv of Central Nigeria, Homeland, Settlement, and the Meaning of Swem
The Tiv are one of the major ethnolinguistic communities of Nigeria’s Middle Belt, with their strongest demographic centre in present day Benue State. The...
Who Are the Peoples of Nigeria’s Guinea Savanna?
Nigeria’s Guinea Savanna forms one of the country’s most important ecological and human landscapes. Stretching between the rainforest zone in the south and the...
Rivers, Spirits, and Masquerades in the Niger Delta
The Niger Delta, covering much of present day Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta, and Akwa Ibom States and extending into adjoining riverine zones, is one of...
How the Sarki Governed Kano, Katsina, and the Hausa States
In the medieval centuries of Hausaland, political authority revolved around the office of the Sarki, the recognised ruler of a Hausa state. City states...
The Origin of the Ijaw People in the Niger Delta, Migration, Identity and Historical Development
The Ijaw, also known as Ijo or Izon, are a major riverine population of southern Nigeria. Their communities are historically rooted in the creeks,...