Colonial Conquest And Resistance

Instructors Name: Mallam Balarebe Salisu
Assignment Name: enemy to Colonial Rule
Date: October, 07 2012.

Colonial Conquest and Resistance

The full general pattern used by the British to dominate Yankee Nigeria
was military mastery. In few areas, conquests were preceded by
fictitious signing of agreements and treaties. moreover within the general
pattern of piecemeal conquest were other marked styles
necessitated by the local peculiarities of the concerned polity. While
in the centralised states, oddly the former emirates of the Sokoto
Caliphate like Kontagora, Zaria, Bauchi and Kano, a devastating
singular military barrage was enough to coerce the polities into
qualified submission, in Ebira fine-tune the British had to debate with
incessant and persistent opposition which lasted nearly a decade and
half. While the established centralised and hierarchical administrative
structures of, for instance, Zaria and Kano enabled the British to
in a flash extend their political control, the lack of a centralised order
of hold in in Ebiraland before the advent of the British
compounded colonial conquest and occupation for the alien invaders.
Despite these observations, it is interesting to note that some Ebira
notables collaborated with the invading British forces.



The first
generation of British agents, viz. Atta Omadivi, Owudah Adidi, Akpata
Ihima and Ozigizigi Opoh, were in this category. Whether they were
traitors or not depends on the analysis. Thus it is a precept that in the
occupation or threat to occupation of land by individuals or a group
of foreigners, there are ceaselessly internal-cum-domestic collaborators.
In the final analysis, that Ebiraland succumbed to British occupational
force could be explained from umpteen angles. The British had superior
fire power. Their maxim-guns were the type the Ebira never
comprehended. Ebira bows, arrows, matchets and clubs were not
comparable to the British firearms. The bombardment, for...If you expect to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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