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"Fight to the Death": Elite Youth and Their Advocates in the King's College Strike of 1944 in Lagos, Nigeria.

The King's College strike of March 1944 led to the conscription of eight students into the British Army and represented a major event in World War Two Nigeria. This article challenges understandings of the strike that present the event as solely comprehensible in terms of the subsequent development...

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Published in:International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 43 - 65
Main Author: Coates, Oliver
Format: Article
Published: Trustees of Boston University, acting through its African Studies Center 2023
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Columbia University
World War II
Lagos (Nigeria)
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