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The colonial era in Nigeria was a period of constitutional changes and crises which shaped politics and governance at the time and laid the foundation of the contemporary Nigerian state. No doubt, contemporary and future political history of Nigeria is linked to the country’s colonial era.
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Akanji, O.O. (2021). Nigeria Between 1914 and 1960: Political-Constitutional Changes and Crises in an Era of Colonialism. In: Ajayi, R., Fashagba, J.Y. (eds) Nigerian Politics. Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50509-7_3
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