....."Even Nnamdi Azikiwe’s popular West African Pilot said on Tuesday, May 23, 1939 when drumming up support for the Empire Day celebrations: “Tomorrow is Empire Day, a day to which school children all over the British Empire look with eagerness. It is a day set apart to remind us of the unblemished deeds and acts of a queen whose memory should never be obliterated from the minds of the African. Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, called “Victoria the Good,” was responsible for many kind acts which have helped immortalise her among us. Can we forget the [Lagos] cession of 1862, the gift of a staff to the late King Akiitoye, the Bible sent to Sagbuwa the Alake of the Egbas, the adoption of Bonnetta Forbes afterwards Mrs J.P.L. Davies, and such like?”
But that was pre-war era before USSR penetrated Nigeria with Marxist viewpoint and analysis and British presence became regarded as colonisation and imperialism. But Oyo, Benin, Fulani empires were not seen as imperialisms. The liberation from slavery, the mass education by the British, the health and social services provided, the railways, the infrastructural facilities built then became known tools of colonial exploitative expansion. Hebert Macaulay became regarded as nationalist when in actual fact he was what was today called government critic, human rights or civil society advocate. He never called for the British government to leave Nigeria, he only asked them to respect indigenous rights. Till the last, he swore allegiance to the British crown. In his Justitia Fiat: the Moral Obligation of the British Government to the House of King Docemo of Lagos, he wrote with pride about the role his grandfather, Ajayi Crowther played in asking the British to take over the political affairs of the country and modernise the place.
Also figures like Captain Labulo Davies, Henry Carr, the inspector of schools of the Colony of Lagos who favoured assimilation with White Lagosians, Otunba Payne, the chief registrar of Lagos Supreme Court in 1877 who prepared the indigenous handbook for white judges to use, became blotted out from the history books once anti-colonial discourse took firm root. And slaveholders and beheaders like Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi were resurrected as heroes...."
peep propaganda writing !this guy might a texan republican ..talking about the textbook writing of "migrant african workers"
...ok.....we're just gonna skip right over that part.....
