History and the Social Sciences: Towards a Common Ground

Civil Wars and the African Universities: The University of Ibadan Example, 1967–1970

“…In a similar vein, in his book on the Nigerian civil war, the military and strategic studies expert Siyan Oyeweso 12 provides a good background to understanding the war from divergent points of view, ranging from historical to the fictional aspect, as reflected in the authorship's background. Oyeweso argues that it was as a response to his duty as an historian to record the recent past.…”