POL218Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Uti Possidetis, Subsistence Agriculture, Bicameralism
23 Mar 2017
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Lecture 18 february 8, 2017 nigeria. Pre-european contact: nok kingdom: inland 1000 bce 300 ce, yoruba city-states kingdoms converted to islam in the 19th century, 1809: sokoto caliphate unifies into one islamic state. Independence movement beginning in 1924: british incremental adjustment, 1947: set up federal system *north, west, east, 1951: house of representatives, 1954: nigeria self-governing (under northern prime minister, october 1, 1960, independence. Initially, westminster parliamentary model: first prime minister: abubakar tafawa balewa, later, nominal presidency, northerners (hausa-fulani) dominate politically. Initial, unity then division along ethnic lines: norther(cid:374) people"s co(cid:374)gress (cid:894)npc(cid:895) (cid:449)i(cid:374)s (cid:373)ajorit(cid:455) i(cid:374) legislature, policy of (cid:862)(cid:374)orther(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)(cid:863) to (cid:272)orre(cid:272)t per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ial-era injustices, growing resentment in south: yoruba, igbo, etc. January 1966: military coup, by primarily igbo officers general aguyi ironsi) July 1966: second coup, ironsi killed, yakuba gowon comes to power: go(cid:449)o(cid:374): christia(cid:374) fro(cid:373) (cid:862)middle belt(cid:863), see(cid:374) as (cid:272)o(cid:373)pro(cid:373)ise ruler, first coup interpreted as an igbo coup violent backlash.
