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.

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Nigeria ditched its indigenous national anthem in May and ...

The way colonialism works is colonisers named the countries they ‘discovered’. While some countries changed their names after independence, many still held on to the names given by their colonisers.

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

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands agreed on Wednesday to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with ...

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay 20 million pounds to each family of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 ...