Politics and Liberation in British Nigeria 1823-1960 - A New Perspective Through the Colonial Archives

The book discusses British policy in Nigeria during the colonial period. It does not consider the 1861 occupation of Lagos to be the foundation of the relationship between the two sides. Rather, it traces it back to the British expedition to the Sokoto Kingdom in 1823, which it views as the first step in the process of encircling Nigeria from the south and north. Based on this, the British explora...