Nigeria and World War II

A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.

Chima J. Korieh is Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at Marquette University, Milwaukee where his research focuses on West African economic and social history in the colonial period. He is the author of 'Life Not Worth Living': Nigerian Petitions Reflecting an African Society's Experiences During World War II (2014). He was a British Academy Fellow at the University of Oxford.