ABSTRACT
This book weaves a theory-driven narrative discourse presented in the comparative historical methodological tradition. In the resultant analysis, the following couple of puzzles were raised and answered: what were the dynamics of relevant social, cultural, political, etc. events that occurred within and between the indigenous inhabitants of the Niger basin that may have impacted their socio-political evolution and development over distinct periods in their respective history? What has been going on within, amongst and between them and the supra-national state that colonialism built out of them?
