The Awareness League (AL) was a Nigerian anarchist organization active since 1991 to 1999. The Awareness League has gone through several periods of repression, making its own organizational efforts and continuity sporadic, as well as communications with the rest of the anarchist movement. AL was known to be anarcho-syndicalist in orientation, having joined the IWA–AIT at its Madrid congress in December, 1996. The membership of the AL was primarily students, professors, university teachers, journalists, and other activists on the Nigerian left. Its militants have been active in several public service strikes. Sam Mbah, author of African Anarchism: History of a Movement (along with co-author I.E. Igariwey), was an active member in AL. Background The Awareness League was a group founded in the 1990s in Nigeria. It was officially founded in 1989 and was active till 1999. The Awareness League was anarcho-syndicalist in nature and was founded mostly in response to the military rule in Nigeria. Further, this group was heavily run by students, recent college graduates, professors and general activists meaning that the writings and teachings of Karl Marx were very influential in the group's founding ideology. Notably, Nigerian author, lawyer, anarchist and activist Sam Mbah played an important role in the founding and functioning of the organization. In 1996 the group joined the International Workers Association at their conference in Madrid. With the ending of military rule and the coming of civilian rule in 1999, the Awareness League became very fragmented and for the most part lost its prominence. Formation The group was officially formed in 1989 by Sam Mbah and other like minded individuals following their graduation from university in Nigeria in the 1980’s. The Awareness League, at its height, had over 1000 members. However, this group began in the mid 1980’s at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, as a study group. However, as is discussed in further detail, the group would officially form in the late 1980’s following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the convergence of many other like minded individuals. While spending time at the University of Lagos, Sam and others came into contact with socialist groups along with Marxist teachings. As Sam Mbah said in an interview, “we became attracted to Marxism, in the sense that it preached the coming of a new dawn in society, and by extension, the African continent. We were really enthralled by the perspectives of Marxism, and the