By Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani (auth.)
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They regrouped, reformed, and modified their strategies during the 1950s with the hope that a sustained leftist ideology and strategy would ensure the success of leftism in Nigeria. They reached out to the British Left, the Eastern bloc, and to leftist world labor unions such as the World Federation of Trade Union (WFTU), organizing the Nigerian masses in major cities during the colonial period to make their aspirations known to the peoples of Nigeria. They organized education and training sessions for workers and wrote articles in local newspapers criticizing the colonial state.
Notable in the case of Nigeria are Awa, Coleman, Dudley, Ikoku, Sklar, Olusanya, Narasingha, Abdul Raheem and Olukoshi, Madunagu, Iweriebor, Matusevich, Tijani, Schler, and Waterman,16 all of whom have done extensive scholarly studies to lift leftist nationalists from the archival rooms or the footnotes of major studies about Britain and its Nigeria encounter. The focus on the leftist intelligentsia is to bring to the fore the advocates for the subalterns in Nigeria during the decolonization period and since independence in 1960.
It does not aim to tell or retell the long history of the labor movement or trade unions in Nigeria. Neither does it aim at discussing the whole history of the leftist group in all aspects of Nigerian history during the twentieth century. It is, however, a necessary account of the events during Nigeria’s transition to a “modernized” economy that have heretofore been missing from the discussion. 2 This assumption was true during the British rule in Nigeria, and it was part of the process of decolonization.