Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation

What do you get when dare—devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash?

Nigeria.

Formation: From Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914. But the story of Nigeria's formation begins much earlier, in 1804 when the jihadists launched their attack on countries along the Niger river. What unfolds is a story of conquests and slavery, betr...