JORAS - Nigerian Journal of Religion and Society

This year marks the centenary celebration of the amalgamation of the northern and southern Protectorates of Nigeria by the British colonial administration. This paper is basically geared towards a critical examination of the major factors and the processes that culminated in the amalgamation of the Protectorates. Its approach is both historical and analytical with a proposition that the amalgamation was not just a one day affair on January 1, 1914 but a combination of events right from the pre-colonial to colonial epochs, and with a submission that the ?nal stage of amalgamation should be better appreciated and celebrated by Britain and the British.

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