@Kwasidagbe's 3rd thread today introduces @sfcdaly #historian of #Nigeria @DukeU in @DukeAAAS whose first book https://tinyurl.com/y7e63tt8  bout #Biafra is coming out w @CambridgeUP in July #twitteristorians #Twittistorian ~BNL

@sfcdaly published a great article in @ASRJournal edited by @Kwasidagbe called "Hell was let loose on country" examining us of #guns #Military military https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.41 in #Biafra #Nigeria #twitteristorians #Twittistorian ~BNL

@sfcdaly is both legal archival & oral #historian interested in how legal records to flesh out social & political history of #Africa after #independence. See “Archival Research in Africa” https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adw082 #twitteristorians #Twittistorian ~BNL

@Kwasidagbe's colleague @sfcdaly @DukeU is also interested in #history of #policing. Read his "From Crime to Coercion: Policing Dissent in Abeokuta, #Nigeria, 1900–1940” https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2019.1576833 #twitteristorians #Twittistorian ~BNL

be sure to check out @sfcdaly @CambridgeUP
book in July connecting #war to everyday #crime, & criminological problems of armed robbery and fraud (known locally as “419”) to #Biafra war of 1967-1970 & after. https://tinyurl.com/y7e63tt8  #twitteristorians #Twittistorian ~BNL

What happens when war ends but martial spirit continues? Life in breakaway Republic of #Biafra was dangerous leading people to develop survival skills. When war ended those skills were useful in peacetime too. https://tinyurl.com/y7e63tt8  #twitteristorians #Twittistorian ~BNL

@sfcdaly @CambridgeUP book uses legal records to argue that the structural conditions of the #NigerianCivilWar paved the way for #Nigeria’s long experience of #crime.
https://tinyurl.com/y7e63tt8  #twitteristorians #Twittistorian ~BNL