Lagos, where the British will concentrate activities…
1852 CE to 1863 CE
Lagos, where the British will concentrate activities after 1851, had been founded as a colony of Benin in about 1700.
A long dynastic struggle, which has become entwined with the struggle against the slave trade, results in the overthrow of the reigning oba and the renunciation of a treaty with Britain to curtail the slave trade.
Britain is determined to halt the traffic in slaves fed by the Yoruba wars and responds to this frustration by annexing the port of Lagos in 1861.
Hereafter, Britain will gradually extend its control along the coast.
Locations
Groups
Igbo people
View →
Hausa Kingdoms, the
View →
Hausa people
View →
Yoruba people
View →
Ijaw people
View →
Kano (Hausa city state)
View →
Zaria (Zazzau), Hausa City-State of
View →
Katsina (Hausa city state)
View →
Gobir (Hausa city state)
View →
Benin Empire
View →
Ibibio people
View →
Bonny, Ijo city-state of
View →
Oyo Empire
View →
Calabar, Efik state of
View →
Dahomey, Kingdom of
View →
Khasso, Fulani Jihad State
View →
Aro Confederacy
View →
Fouta Djallon (Futa Jallon) Fulani Jihad State
View →
Fouta-Toro, or Futa Toro, Fulani Jihad State of
View →
Elem, Ijo city-state of
View →
Equatorial Guinea, Spanish colony of
View →
United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC)
View →
Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
View →
Fulani Empire
View →
Nupe, Emirate of the
View →
Freetown (Sierra Leone), British Crown Colony of
View →
Sokoto, Kingdom of
View →
Macina (Masina), Fulani Jihad State of
View →
Spain, Bourbon Kingdom (first restoration) of
View →
Denmark, Kingdom of
View →
France, constitutional monarchy of
View →
Zaria, Emirate of
View →
Oyo, Yoruba Kingdom of
View →