a brief historyof Nigeria and the Igbo people

COLONIALISM:

IMPERIALISM:

So what is the difference...

some words we should know...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 IMPERIALISM:CITY PLANNING/BLUEPRINTS COLONIALISM:CITY ON MARS 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.

ORcreate an analogy, as I did on the previous slide, for colonialism and

imperialism

a bit about the Igbo people...

● 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

This, is Nigeria.

a bit about Nigeria...

● 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.

and a bit more...

● 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.

● 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

● 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.

here is a map of africa, pre-colonialism...

what do we noticeabout 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...

● A new economy based on raw materials, agricultural products, and locally

manufactured goods saw the growth of a new class of Nigerian merchants

● Being a successful merchant was based on production and merit, not on

traditional community standing

● Christian missionaries brought Western-style education to Nigeria as

Christianity quickly spread throughout the south

● 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.

● 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