CSS Bookshops Buyer Protection Payments will be held in escrow until you confirm delivery. Disputes are reviewed by our team. How protection works →

Nigeria and World War II

Brains & Noble

View all books from Brains & Noble

Pricing

₦65,000.00 /

3 available

Minimum order qty 1

QTY

About this item

Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Item number: 1303

Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:08 PM

Item specifics

Category Brains & Noble > History

Condition new

SKU BN-115002

Item description from the seller

Britain’s declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in the war against the Axis powers. Leading to large-scale mobilization of human and materials resources, it transformed lives and societies in irrevocable ways. Of the 90,000 West African soldiers deployed to South East Asia after 1943, over half came from Nigeria. In this important, revisionist history, Chima J. Korieh examines how the lives of Nigerian producers, workers, merchants, men, women, and children from across society were affected. It recounts the extraordinary and often neglected story of the Nigerian people who were drawn into a global war, the enormous demands it made on their resources, and the way it would change both their lives and the societies they lived in. By placing the role that African societies played in the war within the contextual and theoretical frameworks of colonialism, race, gender, identity, labour, intellectual, and social history, Korieh challenges the dominant perception that World War II was primarily a European conflict and reveals the global impact of ordinary Nigerians on the war effort.