This new edition of Topics in West African History has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the requirements of senior secondary and first year university students.

A collection of essays by historians, tracing the course of West African history up to 1960.

There have been institutions of higher learning for centuries in Africa, but the phenomenal growth has taken place in the last fifty years, first in the later days of colonialism and then in the heady days of independence and commodity boom ...

"Comprises a detailed account of the Ijaye war of 1860-5 by J.F. Ade Ajayi ... and a general study of Yoruba warfare by Robert Smith."--Page v

The author, Ade-Ajayi, is one of Africa's leading historians, and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Ibadan.