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British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914 - A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources (Paperback)
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British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914 - A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources (Paperback)
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Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and
conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially
British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have
presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of
British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical
resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and,
contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some
scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of
that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule",
or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial
taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British
officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier
taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored
the health and welfare of the people in famines and health
epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the
period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking
access to western education for the masses in most parts of
northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its
antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under
study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources
constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on
colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the
Nigerian situation today.With an Introduction by Prof. Michael J.
Watts, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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