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BOOKS REVIEWED ON RNB
Clarissa:
The Brothers War by John de St Jorre
Muhammadu Buhari by John N Paden
What Britain Did to Nigeria by Max Siollun
Oil, Politics & Violence by Max Siollun
Soldiers of Fortune by Max Siollun
Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune by Max Siollun
The Liberal & Evolution to Stable Democracy In Nigeria by Alhaji Modibbo Umar
On a Platter of Gold: How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria by Mobolaji Abdullahi
African Revolutionary: The Life & Times of Nigeria’s Aminu Kano by Alan Feinstein
But Always As Friends: Northern Nigeria & the Camerouns by Sir Bernard Bourdillon
Lion from Lincoln Azikiwe by Professor Chudi Uwazurike
The Hurricane: General Murtala Muhammed by Taiwo Ogundipe
Danjuma by Lindsay Barrett
Atiku by Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba
Sir Bernard Bourdillon by Robert D Pearce
The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth
The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa by Frederick Lugard
Funsho:
Religious Encounter & the Making of the Yoruba by JDY Peele
Dele Ogun’s A Fatherless People
Rafi Riaz’s Sovereignty Ltd: Sir George Goldie & the Royal Niger Company
Robin Law’s Chronology of the Yoruba Revolutionary Wars
Robin Law’s Ijaye: Western Palatinate of the Yoruba
An Outline of Intercultural Communication
Francine Shield’s Palm Oil & Power
Olatunji Ojo’s the Slaveship Manuelita and the Story of a Yoruba Community
Anna Hinderer’s 17 Years in the Yoruba Country
T. J. Bowen and Central Africa: A Nineteenth-Century Missionary Delusion by Iysle E. Meyer
Kaycee:
Murder at Montpelier- Igbo Africans in Virginia by Douglas Chambers
The Interesting Narrative of the life of Gustavo Vassa by Olaudah Equiano
West African Countries and People by James Africanus Horton
The Ibos and Ibibios Speaking People of South Eastern Nigeria by Daryll Forde
The Brutality of Nations by Dan Jacobs
Narrative of An Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwora and Binue by William Balfour Baikie
Jonathan:
Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions by Paul E Lovejoy
Baba of Karo by Mary F Smith
Blessing Obada:
Ogbonge bride by Blessing Obada
Americana by Chimamanda Adichie
Needless Four-Fourty by Blessing Obada
Sugabelly:
Among the Ibos of Nigeria by GT Basden
Niger Ibos by GT Basden
Lekan:
Fighting Corruption is Dangerous by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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