Precolonial Nigeria w/ Max Siollun (AR&D Ep.11)
Guerrilla History
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4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this continuation of our African Revolutions and Decolonization series, we bring you another fascinating episode focused on precolonial Nigeria - the people's there, their history, the political systems, political economy, international relations, and more. We are fortunate to be joined by the person who wrote the book on this topic, Max Siollun, whose The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule served as the major resource in creating this episode. We highly recommend checking out his book, from Pluto Press, and stay tuned for a future discussion with Max on post-colonial Nigeria!
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 focus of today's episode: 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. |
| 0:22.9 | But they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:38.5 | 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 co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan |
| 0:44.5 | Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:49.7 | Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing well. It's a pleasure to be with you, Henry. |
| 0:54.7 | Absolutely. Always nice to see you as well. |
| 0:57.6 | Today we're going to have a continuation of our series, African Revolutions and Decolonization, |
| 1:03.4 | and we have a really fascinating conversation in store for us. |
| 1:07.0 | But before I introduce the topic and the guest, I'd like to remind you listeners that you |
| 1:11.9 | can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to |
| 1:16.1 | Patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. And you can keep up to |
| 1:23.1 | date with what the show is doing as well as what Adnan and I are doing. By following us on social |
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| 1:37.5 | And again, in all of those cases, guerrilla is spelled with two R's and two L's. |
| 1:42.8 | So with that being said, we have a really fascinating conversation on pre-colonial |
| 1:47.1 | Nigerian history today. |
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