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Title: | The conflict potential of the British colonial administrative boundaries 1894-1940: the case of northeast Yorubaland |
Author: | Apata, Z.O. |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | Nigeria Magazine |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 10-17 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonialism boundaries ethnic groups |
Abstract: | Many authors claim that precolonial administrative boundaries were unreliable, chaotic, and in most cases problematic. This paper takes a contrary view and shows, with reference to northeast Yorubaland, Nigeria, that it was the colonial administrative boundaries, rather than the precolonial boundaries, that were really conflict ridden and unreliable. The colonial authorities in the area of study did not have a clear-cut guideline on the delimitation of boundaries until 1933, when the Intertribal Boundaries Settlement Ordinance was enacted. This article first examines this Ordinance and its implications, then it discusses a number of boundary demarcations (the first was made in 1894 by Frederick Lugard, who stood in for the Royal Niger Company, and R.L. Bower, representing the Lagos government), and the many problems that resulted from these. Notes, ref. |