Barewa College: History of a School and the Nation
Few secondary schools anywhere in the world have produced five heads of state and such a large body of political, administrative, military and business leaders for their country. In Nigeria, and indeed across Africa, Barewa College, Zaria occupies a rare historical position. Its story is not only the story of a school. It is the story of how education, leadership and national formation converged in one institution over the course of a century.
Barewa College: History of a School and the Nation traces the origins, pedagogical foundations and development of a school that helped expand education in Northern Nigeria and shaped the leadership class of the federation. It captures the vision of its founders, the turns in its institutional evolution, and the practical ways in which Barewa became a cornerstone of political and social advancement. To read Barewa is to read Nigeria through the history of a college; to understand the college fully is to place it within the history of the nation it helped to serve. This is a profound work of institutional history for old boys, Nigerians and students of history everywhere.