Ayodeji Olukoju is distinguished professor of history at University of Lagos. Tokunbo A. Ayoola is reader in the Department of History and International Studies, and dean of student affairs at Anchor University.

• Foreword by Akanmu G. AdebayoAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction by Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola & Ayodeji OlukojuPart I: HistoriographyChapter 1: Wale Oyemakinde: The Scholar and Public Policy Engagement by Ayodeji OlukojuChapter 2: Wale Oyemakinde and Nigerian Railway Historiography by Tokunbo Aderemi AyoolaPart II: Economy, Business and TradeChapter 3: The Nigerian Economy, Transportation, and the Tourism Industry by Oladipo. O. OlubomehinChapter 4: Between Diversification and Dissolution: Family Firms in Twentieth-Century Western Nigeria by Ayodeji OlukojuChapter 5:Identity, Trade, and Warfare in Arogbo-Ile: Historicising Luso-Dutch Commercial andMilitary Activities in South-eastern Yorubaland during the Seventeenth Century by Olukoya OgenChapter 6:Journeying from Self-sufficiency to Disarticulated and Dependency Economy: Historicizingthe Long route to Economic Recession in Nigeria by Emmanuel Osewe AkuborPart III:Railways and DevelopmentChapter 7. Coal Indust

This book brings together interesting perspectives on the socio-economic history of Nigeria: livestock management, railway historiography, coal industry, tourism industry, pre-colonial trade, family firms, political restructuring and other germane issues. All these are deftly analysed to expose not only continuities with the past but also points of departure and twenty-first century novelties. This will remain a major contribution to the literature on Nigeria’s economic history for a long time.