Nigeria is in west Africa along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Guinea. It is the largest country within the continent, 1 in 6 people are Nigerian. Nigeria is set within three different environmental regions. The Savannahs which is largely used to produce cereal farming and herding. The wet tropical forests to the south where the Igbo tribe is located. This area is widely known for its farming of fruits and vegetables. Lastly there is the small area along the coast where the tribes are kept very small due to the salt marshes and lagoons, this area is best known for its fishing and salt trade. Nigeria is separated in to 36 different states. The nations capital was moved in 1991. Nigeria Contains more historical cultures and empires than any …show more content…
Indirectly through the purchasing of European goods through trade as well as production of products intended for port cities. Other means of direct contact with European culture was the unfortunate matter of slavery. Slavery was going on for over 350 years before the British empire put a stop to it in 1807 as they then decided that it was immoral. Slavery continued in the “black market” which caused confrontations with the British navy which then enforced the slavery embargo.
In 1861, the British government had annexed the city of Lagos and established it’s first colony in Nigeria. During a meeting of European powers in Berlin in 1884 the interior region of Arica was divided into colonial possessions. Local British militants set out to conquer anyone who refused to recognize the British rule. The English moved into the land of the Igbo from 1889-1914. In 1914, northern and southern Nigeria were officially united in to a single British colony known as the colony and protectorate of
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It produced goods that were not in competition with the white settler colonies, which meant Nigeria was able to avoid the worse of the depression because of Nigeria having more exotic commodities. The relative wealth of the colony made it a clear candidate to be one of the first colonies to become independent. Nigeria gained full independence from Britain on October 1st, 1960, immediately after vicious fighting erupted and complete chaos began. On January 15th, 1966, a group of army officers, most of who were part of the Igbo tribe staged a military coup, killing many of the government ministers in the north and western tribes. 6 months later a retaliation began from the northern tribes which killed most of the Igbo tribe’s leaders. This caused there to be an anti-Igbo demonstration, hundreds of Igbo’s were killed and the remaining fled to the south. In May 1967, the Igbo- dominated southeastern part of Nigeria declared that it has officially broken away from Nigeria to form the independent Republic of Biafra. This caused a bloody civil war which lasted for about three years. In 1970 Biafra was forced to surrender due to being on the brink of a widespread famine. During these 5 years, anywhere from five-hundred thousand to 2 million Biafran’s died due to starvation. The ethnic conflicts continued after the reintegration of the Biafran’s and reached its
Lagos- is city, which is located in the coast of West Africa. Lagos is the most
Although, the Civil war brought about change for Africans, along with this change it brought heart ache, despair and restriction of worship to the African...
Nigeria has a complex history and though it is independent the effects of British colonization are still present.1#2 Nigeria’s dissension is inextricably linked to the merging of Northern and Southern Nigeria in 1914.2#3 Early missionaries used Western education as a tool for evangelism causing a northerrn pulation dominated by islam to be suspicious and reject Western influences.3 In the south western ideals were more widely accepted as a result of their acceptance to Christianity and evangelism. Due to their easy acceptance of westernization the British built schools, roads and infrastructure in the South, none of which appeared in the North.
Before Europeans got involved, slavery was very prominent in Africa. Often, one ruler would own multiple tribes of hereditary slaves, who were seized in raids. Slaves were also used in the trans-Saharan trade, many of whom would go on to be in domestic service or concubinage in North Africa, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire. Europeans joined this practice when they discovered its immense value. They exploited and redirected the traditional slave trade already in place, creating trading posts where they could purchase both materials and people from African slave owners.
Therefore, Africa’s extremely rich resources for minerals caused them to become intrigued as they thought about the possibilities and amount of raw materials they could bring. Other than money, their ambition evoked a need for for control, land, and power. The British authority indirectly controlled Nigeria to create future leaders and avoid rebellion. Slavery in parts of the West African coast was outlawed by the British in order to gain assistance in overpowering more land. In a different manner, others such as the French and German controlled their colonies with direct control and used paternalism and assimilation. To spread christianity and introduce European rule and civilization, they demanded African Americans to abandon their authority figures, cultures, and customs, thus overall changing their
In the end, what holds African countries such as Nigeria together is their shared pride. Modern, western influences can bring positive changes to society, but new cultures cannot completely eradicate the foundational cultures to which a society is founded on.
Timothy Vilgiate King-Ndaya HIST 3000 April 28, 2014 British Colonial Policy and the Ensuing Nigerian Civil War. The Nigerian Civil War lasted from July 6, 1967 until January 15, 1970. The belligerents were the Federal Republic of Nigeria, led by the military governor Yakubu Gowon, and the Republic of Biafra, led by the military governor C. Odumegwu Ojukwu. After an abortive counter-coup d'etat in favor of Northern independence, General Ojukwu declared the independence of southeastern Nigeria. Each of these regions were dominated by one particular tribe, and the Hausa of the north long felt oppressed by the southerners underneath colonial rule, while during the short-lived military government from 1966 to 1967 the Igbo had been the victims of several pogroms within the army itself.1 2 To further complicate the tribal tensions already fueling the conflict, British Petroleum, and several other oil companies, had vested interests in vast fossil fuel reserves in the secessionist state, which they feared would be unfriendly to their business.3
Nigeria contains more historic cultures and empires than any other country in Africa. People were first known to inhabit Nigeria as early as 5 B.C. They first constructed a kingdom in the center of Nigeria, which is named Jos Plateau. This was the first of many widespread kingdoms of that region, but two centuries later it would extend to Bornu, which is located on the western region of Nigeria (Gascoigne 1). Nigeria was made up of mostly kingdoms until British colonized in the 1800’s. The Soko Jotojhad and Yotruba wars encouraged slave trade at the time the British were trying to abolish the slave trade. Slaves were normally traded for European goods such as guns and gun powder. At this time, the British encouraged trading palm oil over trading slaves. Many of the slaves that were exported to Britain were intercepted by naval ships and shipped to Sierra Leone to collect palm oil. Some Nigerians began to migrate back from Sierra Leone in search of their homes and trade. British missionaries were invited to follow the slaves back, and in the 1840’s they wer...
On October 1, 1960, the Federation of Nigeria achieved independence, initially as a constitutional monarchy. In June 1961, the northern part of the United Nations Trust Territory of British Cameroons was incorporated into Nigeria's Northern Region as the province of Sardauna, and in August 1963 a fourth region, the Mid-Western Region, was created. From the outset, Nigeria's ethnic, regional, and religious tensions were magnified by the disparities in economic and educational development. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was adopted on October 1, 1963. At the same time, Nigeria became a member of the Commonwealth and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe of the NCNC took office as first Nigerian's first President. On January 15, 1966, a group of officers overthrew the government. In May 1967, Lt. Col. Emeka Ojukwu, the military governor, declared the independence of the Eastern Region as the "Republic of Biafra." After General Muhammed was assassinated on February 13, 1976, Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became head of state. Seven new states were created in 1976, bringing the total to nineteen. Several military rulers followed, ending with the sudden death of General Sani Abacha in June, 1998. He was succeeded by General Abdulsalami Abubakar, who held elections in 1999 leading to the election of Olusegun Obasanjo, who took office in May, 1999.
According to Samuels in Case Studies in Comparative Politics, Nigeria began as a group of states and empires, which were conquered by the British Empire who ruled Nigeria through indirect rule with varying degrees of rule in North and South Nigeria (Samuels, 323-326). Since they were granted independence in 1960, three republics have been created and each has ended by military rule, which led to the creation of the fourth, and current republic in Nigeria. In the current regime Nigeria’s GDP is ranked 108 of 156 and has been decreasing, lower than some of the non oil-producing nations in Africa (“Nigeria”).
To adapt one of Isichei's claims, Nigeria's “confrontation with an alien culture, its conquest, and the experience of an alien rule, created … [crises]” (180). There were many riots and conflicts between the Nigerians and the British, although most of the uprisings were eventually subdued by the military power of the British. Riots were common—from the culturally rooted Yoruba riots in the West and the religious skirmishes with the Muslims and Hausa in the North, to the confrontations with the naturally ‘rich,' yet stubborn Igbo and Delta states. Apart from encompassing all the major ethnic groupings and regions in Nigeria, amazingly these conflicts also covered the three most explicit British inculcations: cultural, religious, and economic.
Nigeria is a developing country in West Africa that was colonized by the British in 1884 at the Berlin conference where Africa was divided by European powers (Graham 2009). The British wanted to expand their empire, which meant taking over other countries that had resources that they wanted, and would allow them to expand their trade market and economy. One of the colonies that British colonized was Colonial Nigeria, which was forced to participate in the slave trade in the past and was controlled by the British through the set up of trading posts and selling manufactured goods. The British split Nigeria into the north and the south regions (Temple 1912). The Southern and Northern Nigeria Protectorates controlled these two regions.
The culture of Nigeria is multi-ethnic and consists of three large ethnic groups. These groups are the Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, and the Igbo. The people of Nigeria still hold their traditional languages, music, and dance closely and may differ from ethnic group to ethnic group. Although English is considered to be Nigeria’s official language, only fifty percent of the population can speak it. This is contributed to the fact of the different amount of tribes, and generally, every tribe has its own language (Boomie).
Nigeria, an African country on the Gulf of Guinea, is known for its natural landmarks
Since economic development and growth cannot be discussed in isolation of a referenced community, society or nation, efforts will be made in this lecture to relate essentially to the economic development parameters in the Nigerian