Emirs in London

Moses E. Ochonu is Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Africa in Fragments: Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity; Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria, which was named finalist for the Herskovits Prize; and Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. He is editor of Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Historical Approach.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Traveling and Writing the Metropole in the Age of Modernity1. Literacy, Narrative, and the Colonial Ideational Space2. Emir Dikko's Metropolitan Adventures3. Emirs in Britain4. The Dikko-Nagogo British Connection5. Metropolitan Travel and Utilitarian Literacy6. Deepening Imperial Exploration, Imagining the PostcolonyEpilogue: The Persistent, Evolving Fraternities of EmpireBibliographyIndex

This is an exciting work, which deals with the ruling and educated elites in the Muslim north and catalogues their visits to Britain.- Robert L. Tignore (International Journal of African Historical Studies) One of the most original academic studies of empires in years.- Barnaby Crowcraft (Literary Review) Emirs in London: Subaltern Travel and Nigeria's Modernity by Moses Ochonu looks at a fascination but under-explored part of Nigeria's colonial history. Its gives an intimate account of an intriguing facet of northern Nigerian life.(Brittle Paper) Emirs in London represents a major intervention in the cultural history of colonial Africa, with implications far beyond northern Nigeria.- Oliver Coates, University of Cambridge (Research in AFRICAN LITERATURES) Emirs in London is an important history that gives voice to the experiences of emirs and aristocrats during the colonial era....This book is beautifully written in a style that is as artistic and creative as those whom Ochonu historicizes.- Robin P. Chapdelaine, Duquesne University (Journal of West African History)