British colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914: a reinterpretation of colonial sources

"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 f...

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1. Verfasser: Tukur, Mahmud 1944-1988 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Dakar, Senegal Amalion Publishing 2016
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Zusammenfassung:"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 with ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the period. British economic and soical 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 for official colonal records and sources constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the Nigerian situation today."
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-515) and index
Beschreibung:xlv, 530 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Portraits 24 cm
ISBN:9782359260472
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