Table of Contents

The pioneers - "African for the Africans", 1857-1867; the crisis , 1868-1880; the end of an era, 1880-1890; the beginning of missionary scramble and rivalry, 1885-1898; the drive to the interior, 1890-1898; the pacification of Igboland, 1900-1910; the struggle for supremacy, 1900-1914; revolution and reaction, 1900-1914; the evolution of secondary education, 1900-1914; missionary penetration in the Owerri district, 1905-1914.