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| Title: | The Task before Nigerian Historians Today |
| Author: | Ayandele, Emmanuel A. |
| Year: | 1979 |
| Periodical: | Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 1-13 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | historiography History and Exploration |
| Abstract: | Nigerian historians have never been fully aware of their patriotic duties and social responsibilities they have never written primarily for Nigerians in the context of a Nigerian nation-state. They have never been able to reveal and emphasize the elements of historical reality embedded in the geographical expression known as Nigeria. Their patriotic obligations as historians should flower in many directions: 1. a conscious selection of those elements of Nigeria's cultural heritage and past that reveal that there was a Nigeria before British Nigeria: 2. a consciously begin to write what is sometimes ridiculed when it comes to African historiography as nationalist history. The Governments of the Federation should fundamentally revise their concept of development, a concept that should be more human-centred than naira-focused. The humanistic study of the Nigerian man, with historical studies as the linchpin, should be priority of priorities. The Historical Society of Nigeria should take every necessary measure to persuade the Federal Governments to scrap the de-Nigerianising, psychically disorienting, exotic and imperialistic history syllabuses still operating in the primary and lower forms of Secondary schools in independent Nigeria. |