Max Siollun

Max Siollun is a historian and commentator on Nigerian political and governmental issues, specializing in Nigerian history and the Nigerian military’s participation in politics. Although born in Nigeria, he was educated in England and is a graduate of the University of London. For the past decade has been a well known columnist for several publications on Nigerian history and contemporary affairs.

His balanced critiques on Nigerian history and the Nigerian military s intervention in politics has given him a reputation as one of the most renowned scholars on Nigeria’s posy-independence history, and unprecedented access to documentary and eyewitness sources regarding Nigeria’s history.