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"The Hidden Hand of Overrule: Political Agents and the Establishment of British Colonial Rule in Northern Nigeria, 1886–1914". PhD dissertation accepted at the Graduate Programme in History, York University, Ontario. September 1996. Asiegbu, Johnson U. J. Nigeria and its British Invaders, 1851–1920: A Thematic Documentary History. New York ...
The Economic Revolution in British West Africa (1926). Martin, Susan M. Palm oil and protest: an economic history of the Ngwa region, south-eastern Nigeria, 1800-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Robinson, Ronald, and Jack Gallagher. Africa and the Victorians (1961).
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.
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A distinctive set of sterling coinage for use in British West Africa was authorized by a series of Orders in Council beginning with the Nigeria Coinage Order, 1906, and in 1912, [3] the authorities in London set up the West African Currency Board. The circumstance prompting this move was a tendency for standard sterling coins shipped to the ...
Many post-colonial governments have retained the name and notional value unit system of their prior colonial era currency. For example, the British West African pound was replaced by the Nigerian pound, which was divided into shillings, before being replaced by the naira.
(The later Biafra War of 1966 to 1970 was, among other things, a conflict between the democratic instincts of the south-eastern Igbo population and the authoritarian structures in the rest of Nigeria). The British defeated the Aro Confederacy in the Anglo-Aro War (1901–1902) and spread their influence along the coast to the south-east as far ...
George Taubman Goldie amalgamated various British ventures to form the United African Company (later known as the Royal Niger Company). 1880: 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 ...