Chapter+25+Colonial+Justice

due date** || **Facilitator** ||
 * **Chapter** || **book page #s** || **Topic** || **Discussion
 * 23 + 24 ||  || Colonial Justice ||   || Brandon Oruch ||
 * __Colonial Justice__**
 * The British political ideology of splitting up Nigeria into three different regions worsened the well-developed economic, political, and social competition among Nigeria’s different ethnic groups.
 * The three regions were the North, West, and East.
 * In the 1940’s and 50’s the Igbo tribe was in the forefront of the fight for independence from Britain.
 * Britain wanted Nigeria to also be split into several different states so the conservative north couldn’t dominate the country.
 * The North had a slightly larger population than the East and West combined.
 * The Northern Region was assigned a majority of the seats in the Federal Legislature established by the colonial authorities.
 * The Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Ibo tribes were dominant in their respective regions.

[|Colonial Era] [|Colonial Legacy in Nigeria]
 * Northern leaders feared that independence would mean that more westernized elites in the south would dominate politics and the economy.
 * As a result, the north demanded that the country stay divided into three regions so that they could maintain the clear majority.
 * Igbo and Yoruba leaders that wanted to obtain their own independent countries also accepted the northern demands.
 * The Northern political party was called the Northern People’s Congress (NPC).
 * The Western political party was called the Action Group in the West (AG).
 * The Eastern political party was called the National Conference of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC).

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