Max Siollun

This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill (documentation) and Citation bot (documentation). (August 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Max Siollun is a Nigerian historian who specializes on Nigerian history with a particular focus on the Nigerian military and how it has affected Nigeria's socio-political trajectory from the pre-colonial era to the present. Siollun was educated in England, graduating from the University of London.^[1]

Siollun's book Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966–1976), published in 2009, has received favorable reviews by numerous commentators who note Siollun's contribution to Nigerian history, not least for its dispassionate tone, critical insight and unpacking of a complex series of events which were hitherto poorly documented or not documented at all.^[2]

Siollun has written about the Dikko affair, which strained diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Nigeria for some time.^[3][4][5] Siollun's fourth book What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule was published in 2021.^[6]

• Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966–1976). Algora Publishing. 2009. ISBN 978-0-87586-708-3.
• Soldiers of Fortune: Nigerian Politics From Buhari to Babangida(1983-1993). Cassava Republic Press. 2013. ISBN 978-978-50238-2-4.
• Nigeria's Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years, Oxford University Press, 2019.
• What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule, C. Hurst & Co Publishers, 2021. ISBN 978-1787383845.^[7]