Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression (New African Histories)

by Moses E . Ochonu (Author), JeanAllman (Series Editor), Allen Isaacman (Series Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $39.52

  Historians of colonial Africa have regarded the decade of the Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity. This book challenges this conventional interpretation by mapping the determined, at times violent, yet instructive responses of Northern Nigeria's chiefs, farmers, laborers, artisans, women and traders.