[32] This included a river fleet which it used for retaliatory attacks on uncooperative villages. Northern leaders committed to modernization were also firmly connected to the traditional power structure. [9] Administration and military control of the territory was conducted primarily by white Britons, both in London and in Nigeria. The NPC captured 142 seats in the new legislature. Agents also collected intelligence for the colonial officials; they gathered information on public opinion and the military resources of the local polities; they also spied on rival colonial forces in foreign territories. Although he reported on the eastward flow of the Niger, he was forced to turn back when his equipment was lost to Muslim Arab slave traders. During World War II, three battalions of the Nigeria Regiment fought against Fascist Italy in the Ethiopian campaign. The company's major imports to the area included gin and low-quality firearms. Until he stepped down as Governor-General in 1918, Lugard primarily was concerned with consolidating British sovereignty and with assuring local administration through traditional rulers. 19, no. It was a resistance movement whereby women in the Eastern Provinces of the British colony of Nigeria intended to reverse colonial policies that intruded on their political, economic, and social participation in local communities. The British High Commissioners could depose emirs and other officials if necessary. Afeadie, "The Hidden Hand of Overrule" (1996), p. 1315. Mordi, Emmanuel Nwafor. [19][41], In 18961897 the forces of the Niger Coast Protectorate fought with the remnants of the Edo Empire. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements ), contains accounts of the role of nonviolent action in anti-colonial struggles in Africa - Algeria, Ghana, Mozambique, and Zambia - and also in Bangladesh. [67], The Colonial Office, where Lugard was still held in high regard, accepted that changes might be due in the south, but it forbade fundamental alteration of procedures in the north. In fact, while the southern delegates pressed for Olatunji Ojo, "The Organization of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Yorubaland, ca.1777 to ca.1856", Bouda Etemad, "Economic relations between Europe and Black Africa, Giles D. Short, "Blood and Treasure: The reduction of Lagos, 1851", "Northern Nigeria: The Illo Canceller and Borgu Mail" by Ray Harris in. But in the 1700s, the Bight of Benin (also known as the Slave Coast) became the next most important hub. His objective was to conquer the entire region and to obtain recognition of the British protectorate by its indigenous rulers, especially the Fulani emirs of the Sokoto Caliphate. In the 1870s, therefore, George Taubman Goldie began amalgamating companies into the United African Company, soon renamed the National African Company. Lagos was annexed as a Crown Colony in 1861 via the Lagos Treaty of Cession.[30]. Revolts took place across Nigeria, but were most frequent in the Niger Delta. The NPC platform emphasized the integrity of the north, its traditions, religion and social order. 2, p. 211-221. . [10], Following military conquest, the British imposed an economic system designed to profit from African labor. Asante Resistance (Ghana) 6. The arrival of the British. In pursuance of the above general principles the chief civil officers of the provinces are to be called Residents which implies one who carries on diplomatic relations rather than Commissioners or Administrators. It was a relatively simple adjustment for many Igbo families to transport the oil to rivers and streams that led to the Niger Delta for sale to European merchants. [78], After establishing political control of the country, the British implemented a system of taxation in order to force the indigenous Africans to shift from subsistence farming to wage labour. His political platform called for economic and educational development, Africanization of the civil service, and self-government for Lagos. Public works, such as harbour dredging and road and railway construction, opened Nigeria to economic development. The cleavage between the Yoruba and the Igbo was accentuated by their competition for control of the political machinery. The most powerful figure in the party was Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto. [52], The territory of the Royal Niger Company became the Northern Nigeria Protectorate, and the Company itself became a private corporation which continued to do business in Nigeria. As a result, the trading post at the Niger River is created and the British economic rule is maintained over the colonies, exploiting Nigerians (Graham, 2009). [63], The Protectorate was centrally administered by the Colonial Civil Service, staffed by Britons and Africans called the British Native Staffmany of whom originated from outside the territory. [19] Ultimately, this became the Royal Niger Company. In the twentieth century, Lagos became a center for resistance to colonial rule. WORKING PAPER: Passive and Active Resistance to Openness - 4 can also resist fulfilling the spirit of FOIAs in a more passive or subtle manner. Discover how the Mandinka Empire, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and Nigeria resisted European colonists and the impact each conflict had. By 18261850, the British Royal Navy was intervening significantly with Lagos slave exports. Lugard's governmental model for Nigeria was unique and there was apparently not much planning for its future development. Demanding immediate self-government, the Action Group was opposed by the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC), which was composed largely of northerners and headed by several leaders, including Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. As a philosophical movement and critical . They received attention from major parties before elections, at which time either a dominant party from another region or the opposition party in their region sought their alliance. When direct Portuguese contacts in the region were withdrawn, however, the influence of the Catholic missionaries waned. Colonial Lagos was a busy, cosmopolitan port. The emirs retained their caliphate titles but were responsible to British district officers, who had final authority. Like in other countries under imperialist rule, colonialism in Nigeria resulted in numerous positive and negative impacts. Ist October, 2010, marks The 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence from imperial Britain. [64], Each region also had a Native Administration, staffed by locals, and possessing a Native Treasury. The delegation was led by Balewa of the NPC and included party leaders Awolowo of the Action Group, Azikiwe of the NCNC, and Bello of the NPC; they were also the premiers of the Western, Eastern and Northern regions, respectively. Nigerians also requested more political representation. The impact of colonialism in Nigeria could be discussed under political, economic, social, educational and religious aspects. Please let us discuss the brave roles of this groups and peoples. Even before gaining its charter, the Company signed treaties with local leaders which granted it broad sovereign powers. At first, the trade centered around West Central Africa, now the Congo. PhD dissertation accepted at the Graduate Programme in History, York University, Ontario. Armed resistance decreased in the 1920s but protest continued, "characterised by civil rights and civil . The book traces communications in Nigeria back to pre-colonial indigenous communications, through the development of telecommunication, broadcasting networks, the press, the Nigerian lm industry ('Nollywood') and on to the digital . Frederick Lugard, shortly before becoming High Commissioner of Northern Nigeria.[68]. As before, Aro merchants dominated trade in the hinterland, including palm products to the coast and the sale of slaves within Igboland. The British Culture in Nigeria. It also means foreign rule on foreign lands. It also makes imporatant new developments in the study of interwar history. Segments of the Yoruba community had their own animosities and new rivalries arose. The Governor-General represented the British monarch as head of state and was appointed by the Crown on the advice of the Nigerian prime minister in consultation with the regional premiers. Frequently African armies of 20, 000 were defeated by European-led armies of 2,000 or less. The election of the House of Representatives after the adoption of the 1954 constitution gave the NPC a total of seventy-nine seats, all from the Northern Region. Nigeria in the past was forced to participate in the slave trade. In practice, Lugard used the annual sessions to inform the traditional rulers of British policy, leaving them with no functions at the council's meetings except to listen and to assent. Main aim. Missionary forces demanded prohibition of liquor, which proved highly unpopular. refusing to pay. The Portuguese sold slaves as a way to "obtain spices and weapons in other areas" (Alme). The policy of indirect rule used in Northern Nigeria became a model for British colonies elsewhere in Africa. The conditions that led African peoples to resist colonial rule often emerged from longstanding grievances against colonial labor exploitation taxation racist and paternalist practices arbitrary violence and political illegitimacy. Alienated by the anonymity of the urban environment and drawn together by ties to their ethnic homelandsas well as by the need for mutual aidthe new city dwellers formed local clubs that later expanded into federations covering whole regions. [81] In 1936, of 6,259,547 income for the Nigerian state, 1,156,000 went back to England as home pay for British officials in the Nigerian civil service. Du Bois. They never were able to elect sizeable legislative delegations, but they served as a means of public expression for minority concerns. According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyage Database, 308,800 were sold across the Atlantic from Lagos in 17761850. After initially adopting an indirect rule approach, in 1906 the British merged the small Lagos Colony and the Southern Nigeria Protectorate into a new Colony of Southern Nigeria, and in 1914 that was combined with the Northern Nigeria Protectorate to form the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Background: Attitudes Towards Policing The period from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s marked the zenith of imperial rule in Africa. The British, like other newcomers to the slave trade, found . [35] However, the company did accept that local kings could act as partners in governance and trade. [11], The British led a series of military campaigns to enlarge its sphere of influence and expand its commercial opportunities. For example, many people in Ibadan opposed Awolowo on personal grounds because of his identification with the Ijebu Yoruba. The Niger Delta and Calabar, which once had been known for the export of slaves, became notable for the export of palm oil. Resistance to colonial rule took a number of forms, incrementally moving Nigeria toward independence. The British took an interest in Nigeria because of its resources. It was supported not only by the income from huge agricultural surpluses but also by a new range of direct and indirect taxes imposed during the 1950s. He said that he did "not consider that their past traditions and their present backward cultural conditions afford to any such experiment a reasonable chance of success". [82], Oil exploration began in 1906 under John Simon Bergheim's Nigeria Bitumen Corporation, to which the Colonial Office granted exclusive rights. Lagos became a major slave port in the late 1700s and into the 1850s. The European struggle to establish forts and trading posts on the West African coast from about the mid-1600s to the mid-1700s was part of the wider competition for trade and empire in the Atlantic. One 1885 treaty read: We, the undersigned King and Chiefs [] with the view to the bettering of the condition of our country and people, do this day cede to the National Africa Company (Limited), their heirs and assigns, forever, the whole of our territory [] We also give the said National African Company (Limited) full power to settle all native disputes arising from any cause whatever, and we pledge ourselves not to enter into any war with other tribes without the sanction of the said National Africa Company (Limited). Nigeria became an independent state on the October 1, 1960 after being a British colony for over 40 years. Osoba and Fajana pointed . Chapter 2 argues that following the transformation of the Northern Nigerian region by the Sokoto Jihad in the nineteenth century, Islamic structures provided the crucial structural and ideological frameworks on which the British colonial administrative system was rationalized in the Northern Nigeria Protectorate in the first half of the twentieth century. In the north, for instance, legislation took the form of a decree cosigned by the Governor and the emir, while in the south, the Governor sought the approval of the Legislative Council. opposed early self-rule for colonial Nigeria on the ground of perceived domination by the southerners. Much of the human trafficking which occurred there was nominally illegal, and records from this time and place are not comprehensive. The movement brought to public notice a long list of future leaders, including H.O. [57], From 1895 to 1900, a railway was constructed running from Lagos to Ibadan; it opened in March 1901. In time, they built depots onshore and eventually moved up the Niger River to establish stations in the interior. European slave trading from West Africa began before 1650, with people taken at a rate of about 3,000 per year. Battle of Adowa (Ethiopia) 5. Although his own ambitions were limited to the Northern Region, Bello backed the NPC's successful efforts to mobilize the north's large voting strength so as to win control of the national government. David Ellis, "African and European relations in the last century of the transatlantic slave trade"; in Ptr-Grenouilleau. The economy suffered from the decline in the slave trade, although considerable smuggling of slaves to the Americas continued for years afterward. By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, it ended slavery in its possessions. In 1923 Herbert Macaulay, the grandson of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, established the first Nigerian political party, the Nigerian National Democratic Party, which successfully contested three Lagos seats in the Legislative Council. In response to Azikiwe and other nationalists, the Lyttelton constitution of 1954 created a fully federal system, comprising the three geographic regions of Nigeria, the Southern Cameroons, and the Federal Territory of Lagos. Its activist membership was drawn from local government and emirate officials who had access to means of communication and to repressive traditional authority that could keep the opposition in line. Dike, K. O. They caused major transformations in traditional society as they eroded the religious institutions such as human sacrifice, infanticide and secret societies, which had formerly played a role in political authority and community life.[26]. At its own request the Northern region was not given internal self-government until 1959, because northerners feared that their region might lose its claim to an equal share in the operation and opportunities of the federal government if it was not given time to catch up with the educationally advanced south. In the 1850s, quinine had been found to combat malaria, and aided by the medicine, a Liverpool merchant, Macgregor Laird, opened the river. The CMS initially promoted Africans to responsible positions in the mission field; for instance, they appointed Samuel Ajayi Crowther as the first Anglican Bishop of the Niger. If the emirs accepted British authority, abandoned the slave trade, and cooperated with British officials in modernizing their administrations, the colonial power was willing to confirm them in office. [51], Guidelines for running the Nigerian colony were established in 1898 by the Niger Committee, chaired by the Earl of Selborne, in 1898. The Eastern region was dominated by Azikiwe and the Western one by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, a Yoruba lawyer who in 1950 founded the Action Group. ", Simon Heap, "'We think prohibition is a farce': drinking in the alcohol-prohibited zone of colonial northern Nigeria. Under the Political Department of the Civil Service were Residents and District Officers, responsible for overseeing operations in each region. To prevent any united opposition to its authority, the British adopted a divide-and-rule policy, keeping Nigerian groups separate from one another as much as possible. These schools would teach "the basic principles that would and should regulate character and conduct". During the war, union membership increased sixfold to 30,000. The southern nationalists were inspired by a variety of sources, including such prominent American-based activists as Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. In an economy with many qualified applicants for every post, great resentment was generated by any favouritism that authorities showed to members of their own ethnic group. Effects/Impact of Colonialism on Nigeria 1. [8] Azikiwe was installed as Governor-General of the federation and Balewa continued to serve as head of a democratically elected parliamentary, but now completely sovereign, government. On January 1, 1914, following the recommendations of Sir Frederick Lugard, the two protectorates were amalgamated to form the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria under a single governor-general resident in Lagos. Non-violent Resistance - In the Year of African Independence, 1961, 17 countries declared themselves independent of colonial powers, most of them non-violently, through protest and/or negotiation . After independence, tensions that had been building between two . They took the right to rule over it, to levy taxes, to depose kings and to create kings. The similarity between the federal and regional constitutions was deceptive, however, and the conduct of public affairs reflected wide differences among the regions. [74] The disease first found its home among the many trading ports along the West African coast. However, decolonization also brought regionalization and a hardening of ethnic identities. [19], The company considered itself the sole legitimate government of the area, with executive, legislative and judicial powers all subordinate to the rule of a council created by the company board of directors in London. In 1916 Lugard formed the Nigerian Council, a consultative body that brought together six traditional rulersincluding the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano and the Oba of Beninto represent all parts of the colony. Any activity in the north that might include participation by the federal government (and consequently by southern civil servants) was regarded as a challenge to the primacy of the emirates. Play off ethnic and social divisions . [73] The spread of the disease was quick and deadly, with an estimated 1.5% of the population of Lagos falling victim. The exploitation of the women's work led to resistance movements and led the women to develop more political awareness and engage in and aid existing decolonization movements. The southern protectorate was divided into two provinces in 1939Western and Easternand in 1954 they, along with the northern protectorate, were renamed the Western, Eastern, and Northern regions as part of Nigerias reconstruction into a federal state. Elliot J. 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Although the capital was not moved, Lugard's bias in favour of the Muslim north was clear at the time. The NPC federal parliamentary leader, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, was appointed Prime Minister of Nigeria. Direct taxation on men was introduced in 1928 without major incidents. Balewa formed a coalition government that included the Action Group as well as the NCNC to prepare the country for the final British withdrawal. The said National African Company (Limited) bind themselves to protect the said King and Chiefs from the attacks of any neighbouring tribes (Ibid.). [42], The British had difficulty conquering Igboland, which lacked a central political organisation. Lugard informed the leaders of conquered Sokoto: The Fulani in old times [] conquered this country. The Colony was ultimately governed by the British Colonial Office in London. British soap and cosmetics manufacturers tried to obtain land concessions for growing oil palms, but these were refused. Although Nigeria came under the British charter in 1885 and was . Although realistic in its assessment of the situation in Nigeria, the Richards Constitution undoubtedly intensified regionalism as an alternative to political unification. Political leaders resorted to the use of political parties and the media to mobilize millions of Nigerians against the continuation of British rule. But the history of Nigerian demands for greater representation go back to the 1920s. Lost land and independence died of diseases that euro bring Exploration was intensified in 1946, but the first commercial discovery did not occur until 1956, at Olobiri in the Niger Delta. Both Africans and Europeans found illegal supplies such as secret stills, obtaining colonial liquor permits, and smuggling. By the 1820s, the British had made connections . Selected petitions and written correspondence between Igbo women and British officials between 1892 and 1960 shed fresh light on how women navigated . 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