Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. MAPS AND DIAGRAMS IX
4. PHOTOGRAPHS X
5. PREFACE XI
6. Introduction to Nigeria 1
7. Part One The Coastlands of Nigeria
8. 1 The Lagos Metropolitan District 11
9. 2 The Creeks and Lagoons of South-western Nigeria 17
10. 3 The Cocoa Belt of Yorubaland 26
11. 4 The Benin Lowlands 37
12. 5 The Lower Niger Valley 46
13. 6 The Niger Delta 55
14. 7 The Palm Belt of South-Eastern Nigeria 66
15. 8 The Scarplands of South-Eastern Nigeria 77
16. 9 The Cross River Basin 89
17. Part Two The Middle Belt
18. 10 The Grass Plains of South-western Nigeria 100
19. 11 The Dissected Uplands of Afenmai, Ekiti and Western Kabba 109
20. 12 The Middle Niger Region 116
21. 13 The Jos Plateau 127
22. 14 The Benue Valley 138
23. 15 Bauchi and the Gongola Basin 149
24. 16 The Central High Plains of Northern Nigeria 156
25. Part Three The Nigerian Sudan and the Eastern Borderlands
26. 17 Sokoto and the Rima Basin 167
27. 18 The Kano Region 178
28. 19 Bornu and the Chad Depression 188
29. 20 The Eastern Borderlands 197
30. The Nigerian Political Scene A POSTSCRIPT 208