Between the 1960s and 1970s, a group of historians at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, under the tutelage of the late Professor Abdullahi Smith, led a new tradition of historical writing that challenged the then dominant historical writings around state formations in northern Nigeria. It was named the Smithian approach. Prior to this time, [...]
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