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Nigeria Under British Rule (1927)
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First Published in 1965. This book recounts Nigeria under British rule and is dedicated by the author to Mr Joseph Chamberlain who was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1895 to 1903. It includes the areas of Lagos and the Niger coast as revenue generators, the Niger Delta Protectorate, the Royal Niger Company, and Amalgamated Nigeria from 1914.
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INDEX
ABEOKUTA, Christianity at, 30, 31
— Ibadan war with, 44, 45
— rainfall, 151
— rising at, 8, 252, 253
ABERDARE, Lord, Chairman Royal Niger Co., 178, 182
ABINSI, rising at, 221, 222
ABOHUN, Chief, 118
ACQUA, Chief, in Cameroons, 71, 92
AFRICAN ASSOCIATION, establishes factories on Niger, 199
—lawsuit, author counsel, 11, 103
AGISAFE, A. J., Laws and Customs of Yoruba People, 24
AHPOTEN hanged, 108
AKASSA, raided by men of Brass, 191–197
AKITOYE, King of Lagos, 25, 26, 27, 30, 34, 35
AKUS of Sierra Leone, 30
ALECTO, H.M.S., 109, 110, 111
ALLEN, W., R.N., up the Niger, and book by, 155, 156
ALLOY CURRENCY, 265, 266
AMADIE, merchant, signs treaty, 1852, 27
AMALGAMATED NIGERIA, 245–273
AMYATT-BARNES killed, 221
ANNESLEY, Vice-Consul, 99, 100
— police, called ‘forty thieves’, 103, 104
ANNEXATION of Lagos, 38, 39, 299
APAPA, land, at Privy Council judgement, Appendix II, 295–302
ARCHIBONG, Chief of Old Calabar, 71
AROS, subjugation of, 119, 126, 128
AUTHOR’S credentials, 9–15
AWANTA, fetish priest, murder by, punished, 76
BABINGTON, Mr. and Mrs., at Bonny, church-goers, 87
BADAGRY, Akitoye, refugee to, 25
— rainfall, 51
— Sierra Leoneans at, 30, 31
— treaty at, 27
— western extremity of Lagos, 27, 40, 42
BAIKIE, D. W. B., 33, 85, 157–167
BANK establi...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- I INTRODUCTION
- II LAGOS, 1851–1906
- III THE NIGER DELTA TO 1884—THE CONSUL AND GUNBOAT RULE
- IV THE NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE—1884–1899—INCLUSIVE
- V SOUTHERN NIGERIA 1900–13, INCLUDING LAGOS FROM 1905
- VI THE UPPER NIGER TILL 1886
- VII THE ROYAL NIGER COMPANY—CHARTERED AND LIMITED, 1886–1900
- VIII NORTHERN NIGERIA, 1900–13
- IX AMALGAMATED NIGERIA, 1914 TILL DATE
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
- PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR
- MAP OF NIGERIA