British Colonial Administration and Development of Western Education in Ilorin Emirate, 1900-1960
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2022
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Palgrave Macmillan
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As early as November, 1901, Lugard had mentioned that the main aim of his education was to his education was to emphasize Islamic basis of the traditional emirate system which he deemed important in the administration of the Northern territory. Not only that, he was interested in protecting the north from the alleged corrupting activities of the Western-educated natives of both Lagos colony and Southern Nigeria in general. The Lugard policy of education in Northern Nigeria created a gap between Muslim Emirates and their non-Muslim counterpart from the South. As a matter of fact, in the administrative territory called Northern Nigerian protectorate, Lugard was armed with is sectional tendencies and attempted to separate education for the so-called Muslims and the so-called pagan sectors of the population. Whatever the shortcomings that may be attributable to this system, the colonial government played a positive role in the development of Western education in Ilorin emirate. Thus, this chapter examines the role of the colonial administration in the development of Western education in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria from 1900 to 1960. This period was selected because of the colonial government that superintended over the affairs of Nigeria at the time.
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Eliasu, Y. (2022): British Colonial Administration and Development of Western Education in Ilorin Emirate, 1900-1960, 31-43. In S.O. Oloruntoba (Ed.), The Political Economy of Colonialism and Nation-Building in Nigeria. (pp. 31-43). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.