Introduction: Firearms in twentieth-century colonial Africa
"This destructive implement of European ingenuity": firearms, the Atlantic world, and technology transfer in precolonial Nigeria
All firearms are not made equal: colonialism, social class, and the emergence of a Nigerian gun society
"A Dane gun is useless without gunpowder": the political economy of Nigeria's most popular explosive
"All Europeans in this country should be able to fire a rifle": race, leisure shooting, and the lethal symbol of imperial domination
"Bread and bullet": guns, imperial atrocity, and public disorder
A fearful weapon: violent crime and gun accidents in everyday Nigeria
"You are to be robbed of your guns": firearms regulation and the politics of rights and privilege
Epilogue: Guns and the crisis of development in postcolonial Nigeria.