Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience
Published In
Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2018
Subjects
Postcolonialism -- West Africa, Imperialism -- West Africa, Colonies -- Economic conditions
Abstract
This chapter examines the politico-historical emergence of two spaces in colonial Nigeria and how this historical configuration affected colonial and postcolonial Nigerian politics. It contends that the emergence and characteristics of the two spaces owe their origins to two bourgeois groups, namely the British colonial administrators on ground and the select few indigenous elite borne out of the colonial experience. Ideologies were formulated around these two groups and used to legitimate British rule as the ordinary man became the target of the intellectual workmanship of the two groups. The chapter concludes that the postcolonial challenges of Nigeria are due to the dialectical relationship between the two spaces which emerged out of the need to execute the imperial ideologies of Britain in colonial Nigeria.
Rights
© Springer
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6_12
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39306
Citation Details
Alozie, Bright (2018). Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience. In: Kalu, K., Falola, T. (eds) Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. African Histories and Modernities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6_12