Assuming this pic is genuine which shows those guarding the colonial treasury in ill-fitting clothing and _with no shoes_, it confirms what we have long known, that the British ran their Northern Nigerian Protectorate on a shoestring.
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This dramatizes rather powerfully the fiscal impulse to amalgamation. There was no noble philosophy of history which necessitated the amalgamation. It was driven primarily by the need to subsidize the Northern Protectorate with finances from the far more profitable Lagos...
Colony and Southern Protectorate.
This pattern of wealth transfer from the South of Nigeria to the North, established with colonial amalgamation, has continued in the post-colonial era, with the northern elites intent on controlling federal power to perpetuate their extraction..
This pattern of wealth transfer from the South of Nigeria to the North, established with colonial amalgamation, has continued in the post-colonial era, with the northern elites intent on controlling federal power to perpetuate their extraction..
of resources from the South (not just through fiscal mechanisms but also by apportioning oil blocs to themselves, dominating NNPC, appropriating greater portions of Nigeria's oil-guaranteed sovereign loans to the North, even subsidizing Dangote's private refinery with sovereign..
borrowing etc.)
In Nigeria, past is prologue. As with British imperialists, so with northern hegemonists and their southern stooges. Nigeria is, and has been, a poster case for the political economy of hegemonic resource exploitation.
In Nigeria, past is prologue. As with British imperialists, so with northern hegemonists and their southern stooges. Nigeria is, and has been, a poster case for the political economy of hegemonic resource exploitation.
This faded photo from Lokoja tells the dismal story of this hearth called Nigeria.
© Chudi Okoye
© Chudi Okoye
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