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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 ...
Journey of an African Colony, The Making of Nigeria is a seven-episode Nigerian film documentary series. [1] It was released on Netflix [ 2 ] on the 60th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. [ 3 ]
From 1903, Great Britain controlled almost the entire present-day territory of Nigeria, which was united under a single administration in 1914 (in 1919, a border strip of the former German colony of Cameroon was added to the territory of Nigeria). Under the British colonial administration, purchasing cartels (of companies such as Unilever ...
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.
British West Africa. Gambia Colony and Protectorate; British Sierra Leone; Colonial Nigeria; British Togoland (1916–56, today part of Ghana) Cameroons (1922–61, now part of Cameroon and Nigeria) Gold Coast (British colony) (now Ghana) Nyasaland (now Malawi) Basutoland (now Lesotho) Swaziland (now Eswatini) St Helena, Ascension and Tristan ...
The company existed for a comparatively short time (1800–1900) but was instrumental in the formation of Colonial Nigeria, as it enabled the British Empire to establish control over the lower Niger against the German competition led by Bismarck during the 1890s.
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.
The British conquest of Southern Nigeria ended. 1906: 1 May: Colonial Office amalgamates Lagos Colony with Southern Nigeria Protectorate. 1908: German-owned Nigerian Bitumen Company began searching for petroleum off coast. [11] Protests against water fees in Lagos, encouraged by nationalistic journalism of Herbert Macaulay. [2] 1912