The Transformation Of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola - Softcover

The First Tribute to One of the Foremost Nigerian Academics and his Prolific Work; Professor Toyin Falola, a distinguished Africanist and a leading historian of Nigeria, has established an enduring academic legacy. Regarded as the most prolific and brilliant historian of Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century, his past reputation and matchless record ensure that he will also be one of the most dominant historians of Africa in the twenty-first century. Offered as the first tribute to celebrate and honour the immense contribution of Falola to the study of Africa and Nigeria, this book covers all the major themes in the modern history of Nigeria: education, law, political development, economy, gender, ethnicity, language, cultures and art. The contributors offer fresh interpretations on original manuscripts to present, in a single volume, the most comprehensive and inspired studies of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.