Author: Kenneth Onwuka Dike

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780313232978

Dr. Dike has made a contribution to the study of Nigeria's principal formative period by drawing on local as well as British sources for his material. He describes how the revolution in trade reacted upon the social and political systems and how the existing native governments were gradually supplanted by British sonsular power. His study ends with the recognition of the British claim to supremacy in the Niger territories at the Berlin West African Conference of 1885.