The Forgotten Era
Nigeria Before British Rule

A truly wonderful book with captivating storytelling. Max Siollun makes history come alive. He takes a subject that should have been boring and makes it something that holds you down for hours. When Nigeria decides to become a nation, it will be in part because writers like Max Siollun wrote histori......more

I came into this year with a plan more about history, but more specifically my own history, which is that of slavery, Nigeria, the Yorubas, and Africa as a whole. This book has kept me on that path and challenged me in ways I did not want to be but needed to be. If you happen to be a Nigerian, you w......more

An exceptional piece of work by Max Siollun. I have been read a couple of his previous works and this is yet another masterpiece. It's eye opening to get a glimpse of how Nigeria was before the colonial rule. Contrary to popular belief, we were actually a civilised people in our own way and the first......more