White Man in Black Skin
by Augustus Adebayo
Our unforgettable years
by Simeon Ola Adebo
Imperial Policing: the Emergence and Role of the Police in Colonial Nigeria 1860-1960
by Philip Terdoo Ahire
Life in the White Man’s Grave: A Pictorial Study of the British in West Africa
by Philip Allison
The Geographic Labourers of Arewa: The Story of the Northern Nigerian Survey
edited by Malcolm Anderson
Palm Wine and Leopard’s Whiskers – Reminiscences of Eastern Nigeria
edited by R G Anderson
Bush Paths
by Keith Arrowsmith
The Changing Scenes of Life: from the Colonial Service to the European Civil Service
by Keith Arrowsmith
An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer
by M. C. A. Atkinson
Nigerian Tales Of The Colonial Era
by M. C. A. Atkinson
Trade Winds on the Niger: Saga of the Royal Niger Company, 1830-1971
by Geoffrey Baker
Into Africa And Out - Northern Nigeria 1956 - 1962
by David Ball
A Rough Passage: Memories of Empire - Volume 1 and Volume 2
by Ken Barnes
An Imperial Twilight
by Sir Gawain Bell
Mad Dogs and Englishmen…
by Erick Berry
Lucky Me - Memoirs Of A Former District Officer In Nigeria
by Frank Bex
Lasting Legacy: A Story of British Colonialism
by Kenneth Blackburne
Gentleman Rider: A Life of Joyce Cary
by Alan Bishop
JuJu and Justice
by John Blair
In the service of Nigeria
by A. F. B. Bridges
So We Used to Do
by A. F. B. Bridges
The One-eyed Man is King
by Ian Brook
A Copper In Calabar:
Experiences Of A Student, Soldier And Policeman
In South And West Africa 1920s-1950s
by Harry Brun
Colonial Civil Servant
by Sir Alan Burns
Gender, Culture and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria
by Helen Callaway
My Tanganyika Service and Some Nigeria
by Sir Donald Cameron
Letters from Nigeria
by David Carnegie
From Kaduna to Kirakira: Letters Home from Overseas: A Record of Nine Years in Northern Nigeria and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate
by Jennifer Cawte
Good Second Class: (But Not Even C3) Memories of a Generalist Overseas Administrator
by Trevor Clark
A Right Honourable Gentleman: Abubakar From The Black Rock
by Trevor Clark
Was It Only Yesterday? The Last Generation Of Nigeria's 'Turawa'
by Trevor Clark
Teacher and Friend: Memoirs of an Education Officer in Colonial Africa
by John D. Clarke
Khaki and Blue: Military and Police in British Colonial Africa
by Anthony Clayton and David Killingray
Nigeria: A Critique of British Colonial Administration
by Sir Walter Russell
On Governing Colonies: Being an Outline of Real Issues and a Comparison of the British, French and
Belgian Approach to them
by Sir Walter Russell
Travelling Back: The Memoirs of Sir Walter Crocker
by Sir Walter Russell
Knotted Round My Heart: Recollections of Life in Nigeria
1952-59
by Peggy Crosskey
Not Bad for a Foreigner
by Jean Evans
On Horseback Through Nigeria
by Jean Falconer
A Start in Freedom
by Hugh Foot
Two African journals & other papers of the late John Morton Fremantle
edited by A F Fremantle
Clifford: Imperial Proconsul
by Harry A. Gailey
Sir Donald Cameron, Colonial Governor
by Harry A. Gailey
Via Ports: from Hong Kong to Hong Kong
by Sir Alexander Grantham
With a Rod in Four Continents
by Iain Gunn
War Bush: 81 (West African) Division in Burma 1943-1945
by John A L Hamilton
Nigerian Sketches
by Edwin Haig
Last Man In:
The End Of Empire In Northern Nigeria
by John Hare
Scrapbook of 50 years in Nigeria
by Joe Harold
Letters from a Long Distance Marriage
1940-1957
by Jane Harrison
Nigerian Days
by A C Hastings
Africa Called: Science And Development In Nigeria
by Alan Hayward
Life On The Rocks
by Robin Hazell
All Our Yesterdays: Memories of a Forester in Nigeria, 1950 - 62
by P.W.T. Henry
Ju-ju and Justice in Nigeria
by Frank Hives
Justice in the Jungle
by Frank Hives
Momo and I
by Frank Hives
Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56
Edited by Elizabeth Hodgkin
A Scorpion for Tea: Or, to Attempt the Impossible
by Rosemary Hollis
Tropical Africa, 1908-1944,: Memoirs of a period
by Eric Hussey
The History of the Nigerian Railway: Opening the Nation to Sea, Air and Road Transportation
by Francis Jaekel
Harmattan: A Wind of Change: Life and Letters from Northern Nigeria at the End of Empire
by Carolyn Johnston
Tattered Battlements: A Fighter Pilot's Diary
by Tim Johnston
Dust Suspended: a Memoir of Colonial and Diplomatic Service Life 1953 to 1986
by Sir Francis Kennedy
Time and the Hour: Nigeria, East Africa and the Second World War
by R.T. Kerslake
'So Life Be' A Collection Of Memories Of West Africa
by Jack King
Stepping Stones: Memoirs of Colonial Nigeria 1907-1960
by Sylvia Leith-Ross
An Attempt
by R. H. Lewis
The Nigerian Field: A Short History Of The Nigerian Field Society 1930 - 2000
by Joyce Lowe
Kingdoms in the Sand and Sun
by N. C. McClintock
Travels in the White Man's Grave: Memoirs from West and Central Africa
by Donald Macintosh
Of No Fixed Abode: Account of Colonial Service in Nigeria and Fiji and of Subsequent Work in London and East Africa
by Kenneth Maddock
So Many Worlds
by Patricia Maddocks
The Jacaranda Children
by Margaret Mamaki
Like Father Like Son
by H.H. Marshall
Beating About the Nigerian Bush
by James Maslen
My Nigerian Journey
by Myra Meehan
Goodbye Maigida
by Myra Meehan
No Telephone to Heaven: From Apex to Nadir - Colonial Service in Nigeria, Aden, the Cameroons and the Gold Coast 1938-61
by Malcolm Milne
Colonial Postscript: The Diary of a District Officer
by John Morley
Wind of Chance
by Dr. Bruce M. Nicol
The Administration of Nigeria, 1900-1960: Men, Methods and Myths
by Nicolson, I.F.
Seven Rivers to Cross: A Mostly British Council Life
by Bruce Nightingale
Nigerian Kaleidoscope: Memoirs of a Colonial Servant
by Sir Rex Niven
Treks and Palavers
by R R Oakley
British Administration in Nigeria 1900-1950: A Nigerian View
by I M Okonjo
Tales of Nigeria
by Clementina Owles
Follow Up: Robert Hepburn Wright
by Robert Pearce
Sir Bernard Bourdillon: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Colonialist
by Robert Pearce
Then the Wind Changed in Africa: Nigerian Letters of Robert Hepburn Wright
by Robert Pearce
Business and Decolonization in West Africa, c 1940-1960
by Sir Frederick Pedler
Old Sinister: A Memoir of Sir Arthur Richards
by Richard Peel
West African Passage: A Journey Through Nigeria, Chad and the Cameroons, 1931-1932
by Margery Perham
Lugard: The Years of Adventure and Authority
by Margery Perham
No Weariness: The Memoir of a Generalist in Public Service in Four Continents 1919-2000
by am Scruton Richardson
Transition in Africa: from Direct Rule to Independence: A Memoir
by Sir James Robertson
Nigerian Memories
by Noel Rowling
Bush Life in Nigeria: An Account of the Experiences of the Wife of an Administrative Officer in Northern
Nigeria from 1934-1944
by Elnor Russell
Come On, Eileen! Encounters And Experiences
by Eileen Sandford
A History of the Nigerian Health Services
by Ralph Schram
Special Forces Commander:
The Life And Wars Of Peter Wand-Tetley OBE MC
Commando, SAS, SOE & Paratrooper
by Michael Scott
England: An Elegy
by Roger Scruton
Footprints, the Memoirs of Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke
by Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke
But Always As Friends: Northern Nigeria And The Cameroons, 1921-1957
by Bryan Sharwood Smith
Diary of a Colonial Wife: An African Experience
by Joan Sharwood-Smith
It's Been a Pleasure
by Sandys Sherwood
Lake Chad Versus The Sahara Desert
by Sylvia K Sikes
At The End Of The Line:
Colonial Policing And The Imperial Endgame 1945-80
by Georgina Sinclair
Burden assumed: The making of a Colonial Candide
by Neil Skinner
Burden at Sunset: Last Days of Empire
by Neil Skinner
Colonial Cadet in Nigeria
by John H Smith
Birds, Beasts and Bature
by Vic Smith
King George’s Keys
by Sir Robert Stanley
Times Remembered in Africa and the Caribbean
by Sir John Stow
The Police in Modern Nigeria, 1861-1965
by Tekena Tamuno
West African Interlude
by Richard Terrell
Peter Cook: A Biography
by Harry Thompson
Ladder of Bones
by Ellen Thorpe
A Surveyor And His Friends: A West African Odyssey
by W B Till
Under Three Masters: Memoirs of an African Administrator
by Jerome Udoji
Dark Subjects
by H L Ward Price
There is Only One Nigeria
by Peggy Watt
Five Years In The White Man's Grave:
An Education Officer in Nigeria, 1928-33
by Geoffrey Webb
‘Dan Bana’: The Memoirs of a Nigerian Official
by Stanhope White
Science And Safari
by Jack Wilde
Oyinbo Banki: A White Chief's Nigerian Odyssey
by Elwyn Williams
A Passage from India: Reminiscences
by Richard Henry Wollocombe
A Colonial Postmaster-General’s Reminiscences
by Alan Workman
‘Strewth So Help Me God’: A Tale Told in Twilight
by Robert Wright
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