This collection of essays discusses population movements, conflicts and displacements in Nigeria within a broad multi-disciplinary framework of three interrelated and mutually reinforcing themes: historical perspectives on migrations and conflicts; population movements and national development; and the Nigerian State and the crisis of (mis)managing internal displacements. By isolating and focusing on these themes, the book is a useful and informed intervention with regard to the various chapters. The essays underscore and illuminate the critical issues thrown up by the intersections between the themes and their implications for the social, economic and political development of contemporary Nigeria. The book affirms the historicity and significance of migration as an important conceptual and analytical paradigm for investigating, explaining and understanding identity construction, and it also provides useful and fresh insights on the historical processes linking migration with ethnicity and conflicts in multi-ethnic societies.

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. A Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, Falola is author and editor of more than 60 books. He is Co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History, Series Editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and Series Editor of Culture and Customs of Africa by Greenwood Press. Dr. Falola has received various awards and honors, various lifetime awards and an honorary doctorate.

Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, Jr.,. PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria. He has contributed several articles and chapters to various national and international journals and books, and is the Editor of the Journal of Globalization and International Studies</>