Nigeria's Independence Movement & Coup Era w/ Max Siollun (AR&D Ep. 13)
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
In this continuation of our African Revolutions and Decolonization series, we bring back Max Siollun, whom you will remember from our episode Precolonial Nigeria from a few months ago. This time, we look at the Independence Movement in Nigeria, and then look at the post-colonial era with a particular focus on the Coup Era from the mid-60's through mid-80's. A fascinating history, and one which we hope you will find useful! Be sure to stay tuned for further episodes of the series!
Max Siollun is a historian. He has written several acclaimed books on Nigeria's history, including What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule, which was shortlisted in BBC History Magazine's 2021 Books of the Year, and The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule. Follow him on twitter @maxsiollun.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't remember Den Van Booh? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your |
| 0:38.8 | co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and |
| 0:44.4 | director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you |
| 0:49.4 | doing today? I'm doing well, Henry. It's great to be with you. Absolutely. Always nice to see you as well. |
| 0:55.7 | We have a terrific topic and a terrific returning guest on the show again today. But before I |
| 1:01.3 | introduce the topic and before I reintroduce this guest, I want to make two notes. One is that |
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| 1:33.3 | our supporters, you can do that at Patreon. The second note is that this episode is going to fit within |
| 1:38.1 | our ongoing African Revolutions and Decolonization Series. It's been a little bit since the last |
| 1:43.6 | episode of this series. But if you're little bit since the last episode of this series, |
| 1:44.9 | but if you're relatively new to the show, we have an ongoing series. This is going to be |
| 1:49.2 | around episode 12 or 13, I think, of this series where we go around the African continent |
| 1:56.4 | and look at the processes of decolonization, look at the different movements that are |
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