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British colonialism created Nigeria, joining diverse peoples and regions in an artificial political entity along the Niger River. The nationalism that became a political factor in Nigeria during the interwar period derived both from an older political particularism and broad pan-Africanism , rather than from any sense among the people of a ...
The British-induced development gap between North and South, the British failure to exemplify democracy, the racial segregation practised by the British [178] and the internal Nigerian racism reinforced by the British would in a few years undo all colonial investments and development efforts in the now independent Nigeria.
The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries) was dominated by several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Benin Kingdom, Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast.
Lagos Colony was a British colonial possession centred on the port of Lagos in what is now southern Nigeria.Lagos was annexed on 6 August 1861 under the threat of force by Commander Beddingfield of HMS Prometheus who was accompanied by the Acting British Consul, William McCoskry.
The British occupied Benin, which was absorbed into the British Niger Coast Protectorate and eventually into British colonial Nigeria. A general emancipation of slaves followed in the wake of British occupation [ 39 ] but Britain also imposed a system of forced labour in Benin [ 40 ] and in surrounding areas, [ 41 ] as they did throughout other ...
The conquest of Southern Nigeria by the British began. 1885: Other European powers acknowledged British sovereignty over Nigeria at the Berlin Conference. 1887: King Ja Ja of Opobo exiled to West Indies by British. [2] 1891: John Payne Jackson becomes publisher of Lagos Weekly Record. [10] Parfait-Louis Monteil visits Sultan Abd ar-Rahman in ...
The Colonial history of Northern Nigeria extends from the British pacification campaigns to the independence of Northern Nigeria in 1953. [1] [2]Initially, the British involvement in Northern Nigeria was predominantly trade-related and revolved around the expansion of the Royal Niger Company.
Northern Nigeria (Hausa: Arewacin Najeriya) was a British protectorate which lasted from 1900 until 1914, and covered the northern part of what is now Nigeria. The protectorate spanned 660,000 square kilometres (255,000 sq mi) and included the emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate and parts of the former Bornu Empire , conquered in 1902.