The factor of African resistance in British land policy in West Africa: the Ibadan example in Nigeria

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Title:	The factor of African resistance in British land policy in West Africa: the Ibadan example in Nigeria
Author:	Atanda, J.A.
Year:	1975
Periodical:	Ikenga: Journal of African Studies
Volume:	3
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	73-79
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	colonial policy land
Abstract:	In the literature on colonial land policy in Africa, the impression is created that the relatively non-exploitative policy pursued by the British in Nigeria in particular and in West Africa as a whole was due to either local climate or British desire to safeguard African interests in these areas or a combination of both of these two factors. For example, when in the 1920s, the application of the Leverhuime interests for oil-palm plantations in Nigeria was rejected, it was seen as another evidence of British liberalism in land policy in West Africa. Purpose here is not to deny that climate and British liberalism played an important part in determining British land policy in West Africa, but rather to call attention to another equally important but usually ignored factor, namely, the opposition of the indigenous population to the expropriation of their land by foreigners, and the probable effect of this on official attitude in land matters. Notes.