Africa and The Wider World (Volume 1,2&3)

Africa and the Wider World (in three Volumes) is based on Nigeria's new Senior Secondary School and Teachers' College (TCII) curriculum for history.The new history curriculum focuses principal lyon Nigeria and Africa, as well as the relationship to Africa of the histories of such other regions of the world as Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia. As against the previous method ofstudying the histories of the individual regions of the world in isolation, the histories of other people arc now studied with a view to understanding their effect on Nigeria and Africa. Africa and the Wider World has, therefore, been written to guide the student's understanding of his environment and the influences that have shaped that environment. The demarcation of the three volumes of the scries hasbeen designed in such a way that the student progresses naturally in his history studies from the earlier timesto the contemporary period. Volume 1 studies the student's own and neighbouring areas, on which he may already have had some information. Since this section forms the background to the study,not only has the curriculum been adequately covered, but and attempt has also been made by the authors to enrich this book by including some topics not necessarily specified in the curriculum. Studies on Asante and Dahomey, forinstance, have been added in orderto complete the picture of West African responses to the internal and external challenges of the nineteenth century.