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New Sources for Research in Nigerian History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

Ruth Perry
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Under the influence of two important developments of the past few years, studies in Nigerian history may be expected in the future to take on a new focus, using for the first time four categories of material which have been either unavailable or neglected in the past. The establishment of the University College Library at Ibadan, with a policy of making as complete as possible its collections of the indigenous publications of the country, and the appointment in 1951, by the Nigerian Government, of a Supervisor of Public Records for the purpose of surveying and preserving the archives of the country, whether official or unofficial, have already brought to light materials which will challenge the historian for many years to come.

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Research Article
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Africa , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1955 , pp. 430 - 432
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Copyright © International African Institute 1955

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page 430 note 1 Dike, K. O., Report on the Preservation and Administration of Historical Records and the Establishment of a Public Record Office in Nigeria. Lagos, Government Printer, 1954, 27 pp.Google Scholar

page 431 note 1 There were in the first quarter of the century some half-dozen Nigerian newspapers, of which one at least, although edited by an African, was popularly supposed to be subsidized by the Government. Five of these are in the British Museum newspaper library at Colindale.

page 431 note 2 Peoples' Union, Lagos. The land tenure question in West Africa; being a brief report of the meetings held at Abeokuta, Ibadan, Oyo, Oshogbo, Ilesha, Ife, and Ede by the Deputation dispatched to the Yoruba Hinterland for the purpose of collating evidence on Native Land Tenure system. Reprinted from the Lagos Weekly Record… Lagos, Tika-Tore printing press, 1913.