Murray Last News Today

The Letterman promises a shrewd insight into the texture of an epoch-making moment in the broad historiography of leadership in Nigeria.

While the current political narratives claim that only Europeans were involved in the infamous transatlantic slave trade, the Africans themselves were also major players in directing and overseeing it

The recently completed royal tour of the Caribbean has provoked debates about Britain’s participation in the transatlantic slave trade. Animated by propaganda, such discussions obscure the complexity of the slave trade.

"This book is so special. This book is not just about history but integrity.”

First published 54 years ago by Longmans, Green Co in 1967, The Sokoto Caliphate is the product of groundbreaking research.

The book gives readers a historical dive into the 19th century Sokoto Caliphate.

The book gives readers a historical dive into the 19th century Sokoto Caliphate.

Murray Last says Nigeria could do with those same principles – justice, peacefulness, honest trade – that the Sokoto caliphate stood for.

The Sokoto Caliphate is the product of groundbreaking research by Professor Last when he was a PhD student at the University of Ibadan.

The Sokoto Caliphate is unusual as it tries to chronicle the Caliphate’s development and a key office, that of the Vizier, or Waziri.