The establishment of colonial administration in Idomaland 1921-1930

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Title:	The establishment of colonial administration in Idomaland 1921-1930
Author:	O'Kwu, V.G.
Year:	1976
Periodical:	Savanna: A Journal of the Environmental and Social Sciences
Volume:	5
Issue:	1
Pages:	29-44
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Northern Nigeria
Subjects:	Idoma colonialism
Abstract:	This article discusses the establishment of colonial rule among the Idoma a politically fragmented and non-muslim people in a non-cash crop producing area of what used to be the Northern Provinces of Nigeria. This was an area for which the Colonyal Administration did not appear to have had much affection nor particular interest. lmressions and opinions formed on either sida during the 'pacification' hardened into attitudes that influenced government policy towards the Idoma throughout the colonial period. But Idomaland was only a part of the 'Brititsh Colony and Protectorata of Nigeria'. Developments here were therefore influenced by government policiers designed against the background of broader considerations affectint tha whole country. Idoma society and its institutions werw influenced by, and in turn influenced, the policies and actions of the Administration. This article examines this interplay of forces and their effects within the general context of Europeen colonial intervention in Nigaria, Notes, figure. Comment by A. Magid in Savanna, 8 (1979), 1, p. 60-61.