Amalgamated British protectorates and colony that became independent Nigeria.
Colonial Nigeria (the amalgamated Protectorate of Nigeria and Colony of Lagos) became independent on 1 October 1960 as the Federal Republic of Nigeria; British colonial rule had formally unified north and south in 1914 under Governor-General Lugard.
The atlas holds 6 border frames for Colonial Nigeria — the shape you scrub through changes in 1900 · 1917 · 1925 · 1934 · 1942 · 1953.
Traces the amalgamation of the British protectorates and colony of Nigeria.
The colonial carve-up that created Nigeria (broad context).
The canonical Nigerian novel; the fictional Igbo village of Umuofia is not literally the historical Nri kingdom, and the earlier chapters depict pre-colonial life, but the pivotal colonial-contact arc fits this polity's 1900-1960 span, and it is the single most famous novel of the era and place.
Explicitly set in 1920s colonial Nigeria under the British Warrant Chiefs system, a strong direct fit for colonial_nigeria (1900-1960).