Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "The Jimmy Dore Show"
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@LeoBaker-ir3vo Nigeria was a case of the British Empire centralizing control away from colonial-level bureaucrats who had to have some understanding of the actual local culture toward Whitehall as more telegraph wire was laid, then when decolonization hit, having handed off to people who had different languages, cultures, means of subsistence, faiths, and inhabited different climatic belts this colony that had been stapled together for the administrative convenience of people in a different hemisphere.
The Southern Protectorate if I am not mistaken was during and prior to colonization majority Christian and animist, whereas the Northern Protectorate was the result of the war between the British and the Sokoto Caliphate, who were persuaded to go along with the Empire mostly because the second thing the British did after accepting their surrender was to put the old shariah law judiciary - I don't know their specific school of Islamic jurisprudence - including the family of the old caliph in charge as local level officials and judiciary, and leaving the Northern Protectorate, for the purposes of local government, under shariah law.
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