1st Edition

Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965

By Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani Copyright 2006
    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is the first comprehensive study of leftist ideology and movements and their organizational structure in colonial and post colonial Nigeria. Tijani moves the contributions of Nigerian leftists from the archival centers into mainstream intellectual and nationalist history, proving the first historical narrative of the unsung heroes of the Nigerian nationalist movement.

    ABBREVIATIONS

    ACKNOWLEDGMENT

    CHAPTER ONE: THE PREAMBLE

    CHAPTER TWO: IDEOLOGY OF THE LEFT

    CHAPTER THREE: RECONSTRUCTING THE ZIKIST MOVEMENT

    CHAPTER FOUR: MARXISM DURING THE 1950s

    CHAPTER FIVE: PROFILING NIGERIAN MARXISTS

    CHAPTER SIX: "NIGERIA-MCCARTHYISM"

    CHAPTER SEVEN: THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, AND THE NIGERIAN MARXISTS,

    CHAPTER EIGHT: EMBATTLED LEFTISTS: LATE 1950S TO 1965

    CHAPTER NINE: CONCLUSION: ASSESSING MARXISM FAILURE

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    INDEX

    Biography

    Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani, PhD, is currently an associate professor of African and African Diaspora History at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. He was a Commonwealth scholar at SOAS, University of London and a recipient of the prestigious U.S. Military National Merit Award, 2003. He has received research grants from Harry Truman Library and Institute, the MacMath Endowment Foundation, and Henderson State University Faculty Development. His most recent grant is from the American Historical Association 2005 Schmitt Research Award. He is the editor of Nigeria's Urban History: Past and Present, Oxford, 2006.