Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 190815 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Samuel Fury Childs Daly |
| PRENOMES | Samuel Fury Childs |
| SOBRENOME | Daly |
| ASSINATURA | DALY S F C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5475-1534 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Every Freedom Struggle Is a Singularity
Soldier’s Paradise
In Soldier’s Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into martial utopias. Across the continent, independence was followed by a wave of military coups and revolutions. The soldiers who led them had a vision. In Nigeria and other former British colonies, officers governed like they fought battles—to them, politics was war by other means. Civilians were subje…
An Unseen Amphetamine Epidemic in West Africa, 1960–1980
From the early 1960s to the late 1970s, a massive trade in the stimulant known as “speed” took place from the United Kingdom to Nigeria. British manufacturers sold West African pharmacists hundreds of millions of doses of dexamphetamine sulphate, and the British government made a long and mostly ineffectual attempt to stop them. The dexamphetamine trade fed an epidemic of addiction caused by economic precarity and climate change. Students took it…
Against Primordialism
War as Work
In the decade since International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH) published its special issue on “Labor and the Military,” treating military service as a problem of labor has grown from a provocation into a major debate. By surveying five recent books on soldiering as a form of labor, this essay poses a set of questions about warfare and work. Is military service best understood as a form of labor, and what might that perspective reveal, …
Ghana Must Go
Beginning in the late 1960s, the Nigerian and Ghanaian governments staged a series of massive forced removals of one another's nationals. The first was in Ghana in 1969, and the largest was Nigeria's 1983 deportation of over one million Ghanaians. A further expulsion from Nigeria happened in 1985, and smaller ones took place in the years that followed. Each was an enactment of the state's sovereign right to define its national community - and a d…
Death in a Black Maria
In March 1980, fifty men suffocated to death in the back of a police van, known as a Black Maria, in Lagos, Nigeria. In the Black Maria Tragedy, as it came to be called, several currents of Nigeria’s postcolonial history converged. They included the persistent problem of crime, the question of how much power to give men in uniform, and the problems of migration and regional integration (most of the victims came from neighboring countries). This a…
Chima J. Korieh. Nigeria and World War II
A reader perusing the mountain of books published each year on the Second World War might reasonably conclude that all of the war’s “fronts” have been addressed. Chima J. Korieh’s excellent Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict shows that this is not the case. Joining several broader works that describe Africa’s experience of the war at a continental scale, Korieh’s book narrows the focus to one important place in the…
The crutch of violence
The Portable Coup
In the years after independence, former British colonies in eastern and southern Africa struggled to fill the ranks of their judiciaries with African judges. Beginning in the mid-1960s, states including Uganda, Tanzania, and Botswana solved this problem by retaining judges from the Caribbean and West Africa, especially Nigeria. In this same period, a wave of coups brought many independent states under the rule of their militaries (or authoritaria…
The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism
In The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering, Lasse Heerten offers a rigorously researched, comprehensive analysis of a war that was critical not only to Nigeria’s national history but also to the ascendance of a form of humanitarianism that remade the practice of war in the second half of the 20th century. In the story of Biafra, Heerten also finds the origin of a mode of representing violence in Africa that still…
A History of the Republic of Biafra
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. Samuel Fury Childs Daly examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from an uncommon vantage point - the courtroom. Wartime Biafra was glutted with firearms, wracked by famine, and administered by a government that buckled under the weight of the conflict. In these dangerous conditions, many peopl…
History of the Republic of Biafra
Policing and the Limits of the Political Imagination in Postcolonial Nigeria
Nigeria's police forces are famously ineffective and unpopular. Police agencies carry the dual stigma of having colonial origins and close connections to the military dictatorships that ruled Nigeria in its first forty years of independence. Despite their poor reputation, there is little political will to reform policing and virtually none to abolish it. This piece traces how the police are embedded in Nigerian society and politics, in order to u…
A Nation on Paper
What role did law play in articulating sovereignty and citizenship in postcolonial Africa? Using legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra, this article analyzes the relationship between law and national identity in an extreme context-that of the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). Ideas about order, discipline, and legal process were at the heart of Biafra's sense of itself as a nation, and they served as the rhetorical justification fo…
From Crime to Coercion
Indirect rule figured prominently in Nigeria’s colonial administration, but historians understand more about the abstract tenets of this administrative strategy than they do about its everyday implementation. This article investigates the early history of the Native Authority Police Force in the town of Abeokuta in order to trace a larger move towards coercive forms of administration in the early twentieth century. In this period the police in Ab…
Hell was let loose on the country
The problem of armed crime in late twentieth-century Nigeria was closely connected to the events of the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). Legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra reveal how violent crime emerged as part of the military confrontation between Biafra and Nigeria. The wide availability of firearms, the Biafran state's diminishing ability to enforce the law, and the gradual collapse of Biafra's economy under the pressure o…
The Survival Con
Over the course of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70), many people in the secessionist Republic of Biafra resorted to forgery, confidence scams, and other forms of fraud to survive the dire conditions created by Nigeria's blockade. Forgery of passes and other documents, fraudulent commercial transactions, and elaborate schemes involving impersonation and racketeering became common in Biafra, intensifying as the Biafran government's ability to enfor…
Archival research in Africa
Despite the promises of the digital humanities, archival research in Africa continues to be a highly personalized and 'analogue' process. This is especially true for historians of the post-colonial period, who often find that state repositories contain few or no records from the years after independence. Drawing on a research project on the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), this research note discusses some of the methodological challenges for the …
Ghana Must Go
Beginning in the late 1960s, the Nigerian and Ghanaian governments staged a series of massive forced removals of one another's nationals. The first was in Ghana in 1969, and the largest was Nigeria's 1983 deportation of over one million Ghanaians. A further expulsion from Nigeria happened in 1985, and smaller ones took place in the years that followed. Each was an enactment of the state's sovereign right to define its national community - and a d…
The Survival Con
Over the course of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70), many people in the secessionist Republic of Biafra resorted to forgery, confidence scams, and other forms of fraud to survive the dire conditions created by Nigeria's blockade. Forgery of passes and other documents, fraudulent commercial transactions, and elaborate schemes involving impersonation and racketeering became common in Biafra, intensifying as the Biafran government's ability to enfor…
War as Work
In the decade since International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH) published its special issue on “Labor and the Military,” treating military service as a problem of labor has grown from a provocation into a major debate. By surveying five recent books on soldiering as a form of labor, this essay poses a set of questions about warfare and work. Is military service best understood as a form of labor, and what might that perspective reveal, …
A Nation on Paper
What role did law play in articulating sovereignty and citizenship in postcolonial Africa? Using legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra, this article analyzes the relationship between law and national identity in an extreme context-that of the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). Ideas about order, discipline, and legal process were at the heart of Biafra's sense of itself as a nation, and they served as the rhetorical justification fo…
From Crime to Coercion
Indirect rule figured prominently in Nigeria’s colonial administration, but historians understand more about the abstract tenets of this administrative strategy than they do about its everyday implementation. This article investigates the early history of the Native Authority Police Force in the town of Abeokuta in order to trace a larger move towards coercive forms of administration in the early twentieth century. In this period the police in Ab…
The Survival Con
Over the course of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70), many people in the secessionist Republic of Biafra resorted to forgery, confidence scams, and other forms of fraud to survive the dire conditions created by Nigeria's blockade. Forgery of passes and other documents, fraudulent commercial transactions, and elaborate schemes involving impersonation and racketeering became common in Biafra, intensifying as the Biafran government's ability to enfor…
Archival research in Africa
Despite the promises of the digital humanities, archival research in Africa continues to be a highly personalized and 'analogue' process. This is especially true for historians of the post-colonial period, who often find that state repositories contain few or no records from the years after independence. Drawing on a research project on the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), this research note discusses some of the methodological challenges for the …
Hell was let loose on the country
The problem of armed crime in late twentieth-century Nigeria was closely connected to the events of the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). Legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra reveal how violent crime emerged as part of the military confrontation between Biafra and Nigeria. The wide availability of firearms, the Biafran state's diminishing ability to enforce the law, and the gradual collapse of Biafra's economy under the pressure o…
From Crime to Coercion
Indirect rule figured prominently in Nigeria’s colonial administration, but historians understand more about the abstract tenets of this administrative strategy than they do about its everyday implementation. This article investigates the early history of the Native Authority Police Force in the town of Abeokuta in order to trace a larger move towards coercive forms of administration in the early twentieth century. In this period the police in Ab…
A History of the Republic of Biafra
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come. Samuel Fury Childs Daly examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from an uncommon vantage point - the courtroom. Wartime Biafra was glutted with firearms, wracked by famine, and administered by a government that buckled under the weight of the conflict. In these dangerous conditions, many peopl…
History of the Republic of Biafra
Policing and the Limits of the Political Imagination in Postcolonial Nigeria
Nigeria's police forces are famously ineffective and unpopular. Police agencies carry the dual stigma of having colonial origins and close connections to the military dictatorships that ruled Nigeria in its first forty years of independence. Despite their poor reputation, there is little political will to reform policing and virtually none to abolish it. This piece traces how the police are embedded in Nigerian society and politics, in order to u…
A Nation on Paper
What role did law play in articulating sovereignty and citizenship in postcolonial Africa? Using legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra, this article analyzes the relationship between law and national identity in an extreme context-that of the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). Ideas about order, discipline, and legal process were at the heart of Biafra's sense of itself as a nation, and they served as the rhetorical justification fo…
The Portable Coup
In the years after independence, former British colonies in eastern and southern Africa struggled to fill the ranks of their judiciaries with African judges. Beginning in the mid-1960s, states including Uganda, Tanzania, and Botswana solved this problem by retaining judges from the Caribbean and West Africa, especially Nigeria. In this same period, a wave of coups brought many independent states under the rule of their militaries (or authoritaria…
The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism
In The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering, Lasse Heerten offers a rigorously researched, comprehensive analysis of a war that was critical not only to Nigeria’s national history but also to the ascendance of a form of humanitarianism that remade the practice of war in the second half of the 20th century. In the story of Biafra, Heerten also finds the origin of a mode of representing violence in Africa that still…
Death in a Black Maria
In March 1980, fifty men suffocated to death in the back of a police van, known as a Black Maria, in Lagos, Nigeria. In the Black Maria Tragedy, as it came to be called, several currents of Nigeria’s postcolonial history converged. They included the persistent problem of crime, the question of how much power to give men in uniform, and the problems of migration and regional integration (most of the victims came from neighboring countries). This a…
Chima J. Korieh. Nigeria and World War II
A reader perusing the mountain of books published each year on the Second World War might reasonably conclude that all of the war’s “fronts” have been addressed. Chima J. Korieh’s excellent Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict shows that this is not the case. Joining several broader works that describe Africa’s experience of the war at a continental scale, Korieh’s book narrows the focus to one important place in the…
The crutch of violence
War as Work
In the decade since International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH) published its special issue on “Labor and the Military,” treating military service as a problem of labor has grown from a provocation into a major debate. By surveying five recent books on soldiering as a form of labor, this essay poses a set of questions about warfare and work. Is military service best understood as a form of labor, and what might that perspective reveal, …
Ghana Must Go
Beginning in the late 1960s, the Nigerian and Ghanaian governments staged a series of massive forced removals of one another's nationals. The first was in Ghana in 1969, and the largest was Nigeria's 1983 deportation of over one million Ghanaians. A further expulsion from Nigeria happened in 1985, and smaller ones took place in the years that followed. Each was an enactment of the state's sovereign right to define its national community - and a d…
Soldier’s Paradise
In Soldier’s Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into martial utopias. Across the continent, independence was followed by a wave of military coups and revolutions. The soldiers who led them had a vision. In Nigeria and other former British colonies, officers governed like they fought battles—to them, politics was war by other means. Civilians were subje…
An Unseen Amphetamine Epidemic in West Africa, 1960–1980
From the early 1960s to the late 1970s, a massive trade in the stimulant known as “speed” took place from the United Kingdom to Nigeria. British manufacturers sold West African pharmacists hundreds of millions of doses of dexamphetamine sulphate, and the British government made a long and mostly ineffectual attempt to stop them. The dexamphetamine trade fed an epidemic of addiction caused by economic precarity and climate change. Students took it…
Against Primordialism
Every Freedom Struggle Is a Singularity
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