THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA AND THE NATIONALIST STRUGGLE FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF NIGERIA
INTRODUCTION
During
the reign of Songhai Empire in the 16th century, Islamic art and culture was
widely spread throughout the whole land. But their fall in 1591 created
political instability, making many states fall apart and causing the rise of
war and conflicts between other empires and kingdoms. After the Napoleon war,
the British tried to expand their colonial rule in Africa and began to
establish trade ties with Nigeria in 1898. Before 1898, the scramble for Africa
by European countries led to the partition of Africa after the Berlin
conference of 1884-85. In the year 1901, Nigeria officially became a part of
the huge British Empire.
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