LYNN SCHLER is a professor of African history in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she is also the head of the Inter-University Program for African Studies, the head of the MA Program in African Studies, and the director of the Tamar Golan Africa Centre.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Delinking: The Action Group and the Pursuit of DecolonizationChapter 2. Disorder: National Incoherence and Foreign RelationsChapter 3. Development: The Politics of Farm SettlementsChapter 4. Democracy: The Western Region Crisis and the Coker InquiryChapter 5. Decentered: The Sardauna, the NPC, and Relations with the Middle EastConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

“Relying largely on previously unexploited sources, especially in Israel, this is a well-informed, richly documented, and theoretically and conceptually grounded and nuanced analysis of Israeli relations with Nigerian regional power blocs in the 1950s and 1960s.”—AYODEJI OLUKOJU, University Distinguished Professor of History, University of Lagos, Nigeria

LYNN SCHLER is a professor of African history in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she is also the head of the Inter-University Program for African Studies, the head of the MA Program in African Studies, and the director of the Tamar Golan Africa Centre.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Delinking: The Action Group and the Pursuit of DecolonizationChapter 2. Disorder: National Incoherence and Foreign RelationsChapter 3. Development: The Politics of Farm SettlementsChapter 4. Democracy: The Western Region Crisis and the Coker InquiryChapter 5. Decentered: The Sardauna, the NPC, and Relations with the Middle EastConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

“Relying largely on previously unexploited sources, especially in Israel, this is a well-informed, richly documented, and theoretically and conceptually grounded and nuanced analysis of Israeli relations with Nigerian regional power blocs in the 1950s and 1960s.”—AYODEJI OLUKOJU, University Distinguished Professor of History, University of Lagos, Nigeria

LYNN SCHLER is a professor of African history in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she is also the head of the Inter-University Program for African Studies, the head of the MA Program in African Studies, and the director of the Tamar Golan Africa Centre.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Delinking: The Action Group and the Pursuit of DecolonizationChapter 2. Disorder: National Incoherence and Foreign RelationsChapter 3. Development: The Politics of Farm SettlementsChapter 4. Democracy: The Western Region Crisis and the Coker InquiryChapter 5. Decentered: The Sardauna, the NPC, and Relations with the Middle EastConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

“Relying largely on previously unexploited sources, especially in Israel, this is a well-informed, richly documented, and theoretically and conceptually grounded and nuanced analysis of Israeli relations with Nigerian regional power blocs in the 1950s and 1960s.”—AYODEJI OLUKOJU, University Distinguished Professor of History, University of Lagos, Nigeria