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Title:
COLONIALISM WITHIN COLONIALISM: BRITISH COLONIAL RULE AND EGBA SUB-IMPERIALISM IN YEWALAND, 1914 - 1960

Authors:
ICHABA, ABIYE EMMANUEL (Ph.D.); ANISERE, STEVEN CLAY (Ph.D.)

Volume:2 Issue: 5

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1ICHABA, ABIYE EMMANUEL (Ph.D.); 2ANISERE, STEVEN CLAY (Ph.D.)
1DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, KOGI STATE UNIVERSITY, AYINGBA, NIGERIA.
2DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ESCAE UNIVERSITY, PORTO-NOVO, REPUBLIC OF BENIN

MLA 8
EMMANUEL, ICHABA, ABIYE, and ANISERE, STEVEN CLAY. "COLONIALISM WITHIN COLONIALISM: BRITISH COLONIAL RULE AND EGBA SUB-IMPERIALISM IN YEWALAND, 1914 - 1960." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 2, no. 5, May 2018, pp. 316-335, ijah.org/more2018.php?id=22. Accessed 2018.
APA
EMMANUEL, I., & CLAY, A. (2018, May). COLONIALISM WITHIN COLONIALISM: BRITISH COLONIAL RULE AND EGBA SUB-IMPERIALISM IN YEWALAND, 1914 - 1960. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 2(5), 316-335. Retrieved from ijah.org/more2018.php?id=22
Chicago
EMMANUEL, ICHABA, ABIYE, and ANISERE, STEVEN CLAY. "COLONIALISM WITHIN COLONIALISM: BRITISH COLONIAL RULE AND EGBA SUB-IMPERIALISM IN YEWALAND, 1914 - 1960." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 2, no. 5 (May 2018), 316-335. Accessed , 2018. ijah.org/more2018.php?id=22.

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Keywords:
British colonial rule, Colonialism, political, Yewaland.

Abstract:
The study examines the nature and administrative policy of the British colonial rule and the course of the developments in Yewaland between 1914 and 1960. The British rule in Yewaland actually started in 1851 as a result of the diplomatic moves by the people to terminate the existing Egba imperial 'yoke' on their land and people by their repeated invitations of the British for 'Protection' against the Egba's exploitation in their land. But within a short space of three years (1891 and 1894), the assumed British 'Protection' had silently turned into the full-fledged British colonial rule in Yewaland. What was more, the British who ought to protect Yewaland against the power of the Egba, by themselves handed Yewaland, first in parts, and latter in whole back to their erstwhile colonial exploiters and oppressor (Egba) in another round of Egba 'colonial' rule within the larger British colonial regime from 1914 till independence in 1960. The significance of this paper hinges on the fact that, unlike many other societies in Africa, Nigeria and Yorubaland, Yewaland suffered the double tragedy of extreme exploitation, oppression and socio-economic marginalization under both the British and Egba in pari-pasu, or what can be aptly describe as; "colonialism within colonialism under the British colonial rule between 1914 and 1960". Historical method of research, within the matrix of critical historiography is employed to unearth the truth of history on the subject of study in this paper. This paper is not directly interrogating the subject of morality in politics, rather, the projection of Yewaland into the Yoruba bordered history as a distinct Yoruba sub-region different in many ways from either the Egba, Oyo, Lagos or any of their other neighbouring community is the major contribution of this paper to the study of Yoruba socio-political history.

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