This article, therefore, studies postwar propaganda in Nigeria as an important, but neglected aspect ofthe country's contemporary political history. Against the background offailed wartime propaganda, it seeks to elucidate the mechanisms and dynamics of this phenomenon, and its impact on Nigeria's postwar political development. It thereby hopes to offer new insights into Britain's use of propaganda as an instrument of containment and decolonization vis-a-vis postwar militant nationalism, which centred on Nnamdi Azikiwe as Nigeria progressed towards independence