HIST-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Palm Oil, Indirect Rule, Charles George Gordon
22 Oct 2020
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Palm oil was made for making soap, candles, lubricating metallic parts. Britain traded gin and other alcohol and drugs with the natives. Informal empire served british interests here well: frederick lugard: first governor of british nigeria. Wrote a book about the virtues of indirect rule and through native princes. Britain was forced into more direct forms of rule because of france. France was creating a huge west african empire. France, perusing protectionist policies would annex large territories of west africa and cut off the palm oil trade. A series of campaigns against the french led to the british annexation of nigeria and led it to become a colony. Once britain consolidates its rule, it turns to practices for informal rule. The fulani and hausa aristocracy of northern nigeria proved useful intermediaries for the establishment of informal rule in lord lugard"s nigeria protectorate. Others could have a potent resistance to western, imperial domination.
