NIGERIA AT THE FAULT LINES: Colonial Legacies, Cold War Power, and the Struggle for Nationhood Hardcover – February 11, 2026

Nigeria at the Fault Lines is a sweeping, unsentimental examination of Africa’s most important—and most contested—nation.From the moment of its colonial creation, Nigeria was built on deep structural contradictions: between North and South, faith and state, empire and independence, unity and power. This book traces how those fault lines were deliberately engineered, politically exploited, and repeatedly weaponised—from British indirect rule and the Cold War, through civil war and military dictatorship, to the contemporary crises of insurgency, identity, and national cohesion.Adamu Garba II offers a penetrating account of Nigeria’s modern history, examining the collapse of the First Republic, the Biafran War and the politics of starvation, the rise of the oil‑military state, and the global forces that reshaped religion and power after 1979. He shows how external pressures—imperial strategy, superpower rivalry, and global ideological currents—interacted with domestic elites to produce a state perpetually locked in crisis.Written with strategic clarity and historical depth, Nigeria at the Fault Lines is not only an autopsy of the past, but a guide to understanding why Nigeria’s national question remains unresolved—and what that means for Africa and the wider world.This book is essential reading for policymakers, scholars, diplomats, and serious readers of global affairs. Read more