Not only did Britain benefit from Nigeria’s vast natural resources, particularly its cash crops, but the exploitation of labour and imposition of tariffs and taxes ensured that resources flowed to Britain at favourable rates, reinforcing economic control and subjugation.
The advert below, published in The Times of London on 23 May 1925, is very telling.
“Nigeria Our Youngest Colony”: An advert in the “Times of London”, May 23, 1925. It was for an exhibition billed to take place at Wembley in London, England. Nigeria was the youngest colony of the British Empire at the time. #HistoryVille
