The Warrant Chiefs: Indirect Rule in Southeastern Nigeria, 1891-1929 (Ibadan History series)
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xvi, 338pp, sparsely illustrated. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (cloth a little rubbed around spine tips and joints, label at base of spine, mild marks on front board). Ex library copy with usual markings on front endpapers, small discrete stamp on copyright page, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. A history of the Ibo, Ibibo, Ijo and Ogoja peoples under colonial rule and British attempts to control through a system which was mistakenly thought to be root in local traditions. Hard to find title.
