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Author_Feyi Fawehinmi
Author_Fola Fagbule
british empire
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colonialism
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frederick lugard
funmilayo ransome-kuti
history
independence
joseph chamberlain
nigeria
oyo empire
samuel ajayi crowther
usman dan fodio
william wilberforce
Product details
- ISBN 9781913175092
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2021
- Publisher: Cassava Republic Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Formation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that led to the creation of the modern Nigerian nation: from 1804 when the first Jihadists began their attack on a collection of independent nations to 1914 when the current shape of Nigeria was completed as a British colony through amalgamation. Formation sheds light on an increasingly forgotten and largely mythologised period of Nigeria's history; revealing an incredibly complicated portrait of a nation with a tangled history, where violence was and remains a primary organising principle for elite competition and political negotiations. Influential figures loom large over the narrative including: Usman dan Fodio, Modibbo Adama, Fred Lugard, Samuel Ajayi-Crowther, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Flora Shaw, Joseph Chamberlain alongside other well-known and many less familiar names.
Fola Fagbule was born in Lagos, Nigeria. A banker and investment professional for the best part of the last two decades, Fola currently leads the Financial Advisory department of a leading African multilateral bank. He has previously made a living as a writer, working as a securities analyst developing and publishing research on companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Fola has obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from the Lagos Business School, and prior to that a degree in Physics from the University of Lagos.; Feyi Fawehinmi was born in Lagos, Nigeria and grew up living in northern and southern Nigeria. He has spent the last 15 years working in the financial services industry across banking, private equity, asset management and insurance. Feyi has been writing publicly for over a decade on his popular personal blog and in traditional media outlets in Nigeria, Britain and the US. He also wrote a regular column in a Nigerian newspaper for more than two years. He is also a keen photographer and lives with his wife and two boys in Hertfordshire.
