This article asks this question: What if, rather than starting from the United States or the United Kingdom in histories of geography, we start from Nigeria? Focusing on Nigerian geographers working in Nigeria’s first university from 1948 to 1990 and drawing on archival evidence and new oral history interviews, this article argues that the view from Nigeria offers significant new perspectives on the history of geography. First, it highlights the intellectual contribution of Nigerian scholars, illustrating the partial and exclusionary nature of many traditional histories. Second, it illuminates the as yet unacknowledged impact of the Cold War on the discipline far beyond the United States and Soviet Union. Third, this new perspective makes it possible to consider afresh the contemporary Anglo-American hegemony of international geography, providing evidence of the consequences of this hegemony for scholars working beyond the West and revealing the less hierarchical alternatives that at some moments appeared possible. Fourth, by highlighting the shifting structures that facilitated and foreclosed opportunities for participation in the international geographical community, the article provides an original insight into the conditions of academic labor and considers the crucial question of what, for the work of constructing a more equal academic community in the future, we might learn from this earlier period. Key Words: academic labor, Anglo-American hegemony, Cold War, decolonization, history of geography, Nigeria.

本文提出了一个问题：如果不是从地理历史上的美国或英国出发，而是从尼日利亚出发，该怎么办？本文着眼于1948年至1990年在尼日利亚第一所大学工作的尼日利亚地理学家，并利用档案证据和新的口述历史访谈，认为，尼日利亚的观点为地理史提供了重要的新观点。首先，它突出了尼日利亚学者的智力贡献，说明了许多传统历史的部分和排他性。其次，它阐明了冷战对这一学科的影响尚未得到公认，而这一影响远远超出了美国和苏联。第三，这种新观点使重新考虑当代英美国际地理霸权成为可能，提供了这种霸权对西方以外的学者的影响的证据，并揭示了有时可能出现的等级较低的替代方案。第四，通过强调促进和取消参与国际地理社区的机会的变化结构，本文提供了对学术劳动条件的独到见解，并考虑了关于建设一个更加平等的学术社区的工作的关键问题。将来，我们可能会从早期学习。关键词：学术劳动，英美霸权，冷战，非殖民化，地理历史，尼日利亚。