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Ethnic Groups

British Occupation of Nigeria

  • The British used a practice called "Indirecet Rule" that was frowned upon by the Native Nigerians (indirect rule = british would use existing Nigerian customs and tweak them to make them suitable for themselves however, the Bristish government would still have vetoing power over any decisions made)
  • There are about 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria and each group has its own piece of land that they call their own and it's where people of your same ethnic group live
  • Members who do not belong to a specific group are “aliens” and do not have a lot of the different privileges that others do
  • British introduced Christianity to a region that had been mostly islamic to this point. (This caused skirmishs between both cultures)
  • The British also took many natural resources from the Igbo people, due to an abundance of oil there.

British occupation of Nigeria

British Occupation of Nigeria

by: Maggie, Jack, Victoria, and Alex

Colonial Period

  • When British arrived, they were very bossy and quickly bossed the Nigerians around
  • Nigeria is known for its diverse people and geography
  • There are many languages spoken in Nigeria as a result of this; including Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, Hausa, Edo, Ibibio, Tiv, and English
  • Nigeria has a federal republic with two legislative houses: Senate and House of Representatives (British System)

Early British Imperialism

  • Colonies such as Nigeria became part of British imperial expansion that focused on exploiting raw materials, minerals, and foodstuffs important to Western industrial development
  • Britain tried to encourage tropical export crops in Nigeria and to stimulate demand there for British manufactured goods
  • towards the end, the colonization of Nigeria was a prolonged process that took more than forty years to accomplish
  • 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.
  • The slave trade was one of the major causes of the devastating strife in southern Nigeria during the three centuries to the mid-1800s
  • British administration in Nigeria formally began in 1861
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