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JU-JU AND JUSTICE IN NIGERIA

First published in 1930 The following tales were related to me (GASCOIGNE LUMLEY) by my friend and colleague Frank Hives, partly as he told them and partly from his notes. They are true stories of things that happened and of people he knew. Hives belongs to a former generation of administrators, and was in his younger days essentially a pioneer. When he first went to Nigeria the hinterland of that protectorate was hardly touched by the civilising influences of Trade and Government, which were confined to a few stations on the coast and on the banks of the Niger.