Minority Identities in Nigeria

Oghenetoja Okoh is an Assistant Professor of African History at Loyola University Maryland. Her research interests include minority identity formation, citizenship, gender relations, and migration in the post-independence period. She currently sits on the editorial board of the Contemporary Journal of African Studies and is a member of the African Studies Association.

• Introduction: setting the context: the western Niger delta; 1. 'Active methods of showing dislike': colonial resistance in Warri province, 1927; 2. The consolidation of ethnicity in the Niger delta: colonial reorganization, development, and taxation in Warri, 1928–38; 3. Postwar minority politics: reform and the limits of nationalism, 1939-52; 4. The mid-west region: minority claims and shifting local alliances, 1950–57; 5. Defining minorities on the eve of Nigerian independence: the minorities commission, 1957–58; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

'Conceptually sophisticated, methodologically rigorous, and beautifully written, Minority Identities in Nigeria is a milestone in historical scholarship on Nigeria in particular, and the history of minority agitation in Africa, in general.' Saheed Aderinto, author of Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa