Nigeria: We're Reinventing Northern Nigeria's Rich Heritage - Director, Arewa House

29 October 2020
interview

Dr. Shuaibu Shehu Aliyu is a historian and the current Director of Arewa House; Northern Nigeria's foremost centre for research and historical documentation under the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. In this interview, he speaks on Arewa House in the last 50 years and the prospect of constructing an archives building that would house conservation laboratory, archives repository, oral documentation unit and a digital newspaper library.

What informed the decision to convert the late premier's house into a research centre?

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