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a brief history
of Nigeria and the Igbo people
some words we should know...
COLONIALISM:
IMPERIALISM:
So what is the
difference...
the control or governing influence of a nation
over a dependent country, territory, or people;
the system or policy by which a nation maintains
or advocates such control or influence.
the policy of extending the rule or authority of
an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of
acquiring and holding colonies;
advocacy of imperial or sovereign interests over
the interests of the dependent states.
...between the two?
to simplify...
1.Colonialism is a term where a country conquers and rules over other
regions. Imperialism means creating an empire, expanding into the
neighbouring regions and expanding its dominance far.
2.In Colonialism, one can see great movement of people to the new
territory and living as permanent settlers. Imperialism is just
exercising power over the conquered regions either through sovereignty
or indirect mechanisms of control.
In a way, colonialism can be thought of as an act, the doing part,
while imperialism is the thought process behind the act.
COLONIALISM:CONSTRUCTION
COLONIALISM:CITY ON MARS
IMPERIALISM:CITY PLANNING/BLUEPRINTS
IMPERIALISM:NASA
LET’S MAKE A PREDICTION...
Choose one of our new vocab words, and
use it in a sentence to make a prediction
about Nigeria or the Igbo people.
OR
create an analogy, as I did on the
previous slide, for colonialism and
imperialism
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It is believed that the Igbo originated in an area about 100 miles north
of Southern Nigeria between five and six thousand years ago.
The majority of Igbo are farmers. Their staple crop is yam, and its
harvesting is a time for great celebration. With the assistance of migrant
labor, they also harvest the fruit of the palm tree, which is processed
into palm oil, and exported to Europe.
The Igbo are a politically fragmented group, with numerous divisions
resulting from geographic differences. They have no centralized
chieftaincy. Instead, the responsibility of leadership has traditionally
been left to the village councils, which include the heads of lineages,
elders, titled men, and men who have established themselves economically
within the community. It is possible for an Igbo man, through personal
success, to become the nominal leader of the council.
It would be reductionist to lump all religious practices into a whole, but
most Igbo practiced some form of ancestor worship, which held that in
order to gain success in this world, one must appease of the spirits of
the deceased
a bit about the Igbo people...
This, is
Nigeria.
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NOW,more than 250 ethnic tribes call
present-day Nigeria home. The three
largest and most dominant ethnic
groups are the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo
(pronounced ee-bo
NOW, covers a space about twice the
size of California (360,000 square
miles)
Every ethnic group in Nigeria has its
own stories of where its ancestors
came from
Trans-Sahara trade in North Africa
increased the wealth of many empires
and tribes across the region, and
brought Nigerian cultures into contact
with both the Islamic world and
Europe.
a bit about Nigeria...
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Outsiders heavily influenced the societies of Nigeria. Contact with Europeans began
with the arrival of Portuguese ships in 1486. The British, French, and Dutch soon
followed, and the trade in slaves replaced the original trade in goods. Many of the
coastal communities began selling their neighbors, whom they had captured in wars
and raids, to the Europeans in exchange for things such as guns, metal, jewelry,
and liquor.
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The slave trade had major social consequences for the Africans. Violence and
intertribal warfare increased as the search for slaves intensified. Increased
wealth began to change social structures in the area. Leadership, which had been
based on tradition and ritual, soon became based on wealth and economic power
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After more than 350 years of slave trading, the British decided that the slave
trade was immoral and, in 1807, ordered it stopped. They began to force their
newfound morality on the Nigerians. Illegal slave trade continued; by 1861 the
British government attacked Lagos to try to stem the flow of slaves from the area
and had annexed the city and established its first official colony in Nigeria.
and a bit more...
here is a map of africa, precolonialism...
what do we notice
about it?
how might it change?
a larger look...
Now, what do we
notice about
this map?
What has
happened in
colonial Africa?
What,
especially, is
happening in
Nigeria?
some effects in Nigeria...
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A new economy based on raw materials, agricultural products, and locally
manufactured goods saw the growth of a new class of Nigerian merchants
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Being a successful merchant was based on production and merit, not on
traditional community standing
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Christian missionaries brought Western-style education to Nigeria as
Christianity quickly spread throughout the south
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Ethnic groups in modern Nigeria came together under a commonly felt sense of
national identity. The Africans began to see themselves not as members of
tribes, but as Nigerians in a common struggle against their colonial rulers.
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Increased urbanization and higher education brought large multiethnic groups
together for the first time. As a result of this coming together, the
Nigerians saw that they had more in common with each other than they had
previously thought
BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY
OF NIGERIA AND OUR VOCAB WORDS,DO WE
THINK WHAT HAPPENED IN NIGERIA IS
COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM, OR BOTH?
EXPLAIN.
“Colonialism. The enforced spread
of the rule of reason. But who is
going to spread it among the
colonizers?”
― Anthony Burgess