Students will learn how Nigeria was able to achieve its independence from the British Empire.
The topics covered will be as follows:
Week 1: Conquest of Nigeria
•	Early British forays into Nigeria
•	Conquest of Northern Nigeria
•	Conquest of the Southern Nigeria
•	Amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914
Week 2: Colonial Nigeria from 1914-1939
•	World War 1’s effects on Nigeria
•	Frederick Lugard & indirect rule
•	Abeokuta Revolts
•	The Great Depression
•	The Igbo Women’s War of 1929
•	The Clifford Constitution
•	Nigerian National Democratic Party
Week 3: Colonial Nigeria from 1939-1950
•	World War 2 & the Burma Campaigns
•	Peaceful protests in 1944
•	The Richards Constitution
•	National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
•	Drawing inspiration from Gandhi
Week 4: Colonial Nigeria from 1950-1960
•	The Macpherson Constitution
•	Autonomy in Government from the British
•	The British begin to pull out in 1957
•	Empire is expensive: British recession in the 1950s
•	1959 House of Representatives elections
•	October 1, 1960, Independence achieved
My class will be structured along the history on Nigeria, focusing more on Nigeria as a region and political entity, without going too much into all 500+ tribes in the region.
I will be teaching using a mixture of discussion, lecture and old time photographs from the region at the time to show the transition.
My teaching style can be described as interactive.
Learners will get to interact with my and each other through discussion, slides and lecturing. I will highly encourage my students to discuss in the chat after class what they think of these events in history. As we progress though the various decades there will be some pauses in the class to ask for students what they think will happen next in order to see how much they have picked up on.
No prior knowledge or experience is needed