USMAN, Dr. Yusufu Bala

B.A, Ph.D; historian, social critic, ad ministrator, university teacher; b: 1945; p: Musawa, Katsina; mar ried; nc: six; ed: University of Lancaster, UK; Ahmadu Bello Univer sity, Zaria. cr: mem. Committee for the Review of Nigerian Voreign Policy, 1975-76; Constitution Drafting Committee, 1975-76; Nige rian Delegation to the People's Republic of Angola, 1976; Special Adviser, Nigerian Delegation to the 31st and 41st Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in 1976 and 1986; Trustee of the Nigeria Labour Congress, 1978-80; Co-ordinator of the Transition Programme and Secretary, Kaduna State Government, 1979-82, Awoniyi Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Contract Awards in Niger State, 1984; ch: Political Committee of the All-Nigeria Conference on Foreign Policy, Kuru, 1986; former Reader, Department of His tory, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; mem. Analyst Magazine Collective. publ: For the Liberation ofNigeria, New Beacon Books, Lon don, 1979), The Transformation Katsina, 1400-1883; The Emergence and Overthrow of the Sarauta System and the Establishment of the Empire, ABU Press,…