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Article: Colonialism and the economic demise and transformation of northern Nigeria's slave fundamental extractors from 1903 to the 1920s.
- Article from:
- Journal of Asian and African Studies
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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British colonial rule established a range of practices, laws, policies, and treaties that radically transformed Northern Nigeria's social formation. These included the military conquest of Northern Nigeria (the Sokoto Caliphate and its emirates), the subsequent establishment of British rule in 1903, the governing policy of indirect rule (a system of colonial administration based on the existing traditional African ruling classes), anti-slavery legislation, the native rights act of 1910, trading companies' treaties, taxation legislation, and the encouragement of commodity production.(2) This article focuses on the effects of the establishment of British colonial rule on the ...