Early European Contact with Nigeria
Portuguese caravels, slave ships, explorers on the Niger and missionaries at Badagry. Four waves of Europeans came by sea.
What this unit covers
Unit 2: Pre-Colonial and Colonial History of Nigeria
- 1 Early Civilisations: Nok and Igbo-UkwuLong before anyone drew Nigeria's borders, people here were smelting iron and casting bronze the world still marvels at. · 9 min
- 2 Pre-Colonial States: Kanem-Bornu, Hausa, Oyo and BeninFour great political systems grew up in the Nigerian area, and each one solved the problem of power in its own way. · 10 min
- 3 The Trans-Saharan (Arab) Trade and Its InfluenceThe desert was not a wall but a sea, and the camel caravans that crossed it reshaped the north for a thousand years. · 9 min
- 4 Early European Contact with NigeriaPortuguese caravels, slave ships, explorers on the Niger and missionaries at Badagry. Four waves of Europeans came by sea. · 9 min
- 5 European Subjugation, Partition and AmalgamationHow a coastline of trading posts became a single British colony called Nigeria, in about fifty years. · 10 min