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Title:On Aro Colonial Primary Source Material: A Critique of the Historiography
Author:Nwauwa, Apollos O.ISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:History in Africa
Volume:19
Pages:377-385
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:Aro
historical sources
colonial reports (form)
colonialism
History and Exploration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Bibliography/Research
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172007
Abstract:Aro colonial primary source materials include intelligence reports, notes, memoranda, minutes, and other related documents most of which have been preserved at the Enugu, Ibadan, and Kaduna branches of the Nigerian National Archives. They were largely the creation of British colonial officials and administrators. The overwhelming interest exhibited by the colonial officials in the Aro was engendered by their much acclaimed 'superior intelligence' vis-à-vis the Igbo and Ibibio and their widespread influence in the whole of southeastern Nigeria. The British assumed that the Aro, like the Fulani in northern Nigeria, could be used to implement the indirect rule policy in Igboland. This paper analyses colonial source material on the Aro, arguing that the small fragments of factual evidence it contains are enmeshed in heavy doses of speculation. Notes, ref.
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