65288a64fe Lugards arrival at Calabar on a tour of the Central and Eastern Provinces, Dec. But we should not celebrate an event in our colonial history of which we should not be proud. It is a pity that Nigerian and African history are no longer being seriously taught in our schools and Universities. He returned to Lagos to become first Editor of Nigeria Magazine, 1959-1962, and then Secretary at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ibadan. 1985-87); West African Resistance (London, Hutchinson 1971); Nigeria: an Introduction to its History (London, Longman 1979); ed. These lawyers, Okonjo convincingly argues, succeeded in hamstringing the administration to such an extent that in places it came to a standstill. From 1968 to 1978 he was based in Nigeria again, first as Research Professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ife, then from 1971 as Professor of History at the Ahmadu Bello University (also becoming Director of its Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies, 1972-1975) and finally as Research Professor in History at the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Lagos, 1975-1978. His death on 14 August 1988 was marked by obituaries in the four major daily London newspapers and in many academic journals. "Sir Percy Girouard and myself, however, hold very opposite views regarding the development of Northern Nigeria.
They all speaks only Hausa and if you cannot speak Hausa to them then you cannot communicate to them or then you will be forced to look for someone that hears and speaks Hausa to be a translator to you.This sight was afterward echoed in the 1940s by both Obafemi Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, who stated quite clearly that they both regarded Nigeria as a mere geographical expression, and not a united country. Egerton put the position as seen by his administration succinctly in a letter to Lord Crewe, the Colonial Secretary. SECONDLY AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE VARIOUS ENTITIES/KINGDOMS THAT LUGARD FORCED TOGETHER IN 1914 WERE NEVER MADE TO SURRENDER THEIR PRE 1914 INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTIES. Since the amalgamation in 1914, the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people are different in every way including religion, custom, language and aspiration. But even though disputes concerned matters of much less moment, such as the position of a marker point in a river, they were sometimes referred home. He returned to the academic world as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the LSE, 1981-82, and then as Professor of History at the University of Botswana, 1982-85. He received a number of suggestions as to how the huge Northern Protectorate might be broken up to give the constituent units of the new Nigeria greater balance.
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