Nineteenth Century Origins of Nigerian Nationalism

Abstract

james Coleman in his recent study, Nigeria: Background to Nationalism , distinguishes between traditional and modern nationalism in Nigeria. traditional nationalism, he says, includes movements of resistance to the initial British penetration and occupation, early revolts provoked by the imposition or operation of alien political or economic coercions. Modern nationalism, he says, includes sentiments, activities and organizational developments aimed explicitly at the self-government and independence of Nigeria as a nation state on a basis of equality in an international state system. He goes on to say that the earlier traditional nationalism was probably just as intensely nationalistic and anti-European as the modern nationalism and that clear line can be drawn between the two : no sharp line can be drawn between the initial resistance to the establishment

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