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Item Import control under regionalism in colonial Nigeria, 1954-1960(International Association of African Researchers and Reviewers,, 2019-01) Abolorunde, A. S.The colonization of Nigeria by the British opened a new vista in the history of the country as various ethnic groups came under the British system of administration. Parts of the colonial administrative structures included, native courts, native authorities, native treasuries and protectorates. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists and scholars of various disciplines have through their works, interrogated Nigeria’s colonial past. Indirect rule system, colonial infrastructure, the rise of nationalism, currency circulation, colonial system of banking, colonial system of education and exploitation of Nigeria’s resources are typical examples of Nigeria’s colonial experience. Similarly, scholars have made attempts at interrogating various aspects of the country’s colonial history. These include, colonial agricultural policies, colonial export control policies, marketing boards, trade restrictions, politics of decolonization, politics of transfer of power, constitutional developments, regionalism, nationalist movements, colonial tariff system and issues that deal with Nigeria’s economic development in the colonial period. These intellectual efforts have not beamed their searchlight on how import control in an era of regionalism was used as one of the strategies of decolonization before the country’s independence. Thus, the interrogation of a history of import control as an integral part of decolonization seems to have been neglected. It is against this backdrop that this paper interrogated import control as colonial economic policy which aided the entrenchment of regionalism in Nigeria. The paper in its conclusion argued that import control under regionalism was one of the strategies used by the colonial government in the devolution of some of its economic powers to the regions through constitutional framework.Item All in the interest of the British’: import control policies in Nigeria during the inter-war years, 1919-1939(Historical Society of Nigeria, 2019) Abolorunde, A. S.The colonization of Nigeria especially after the 1914 amalgamation necessitated the formulation of various economic policies that put the Nigerian economy under the firm control of the British. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists and scholars of various disciplines have, through their works, interrogated colonial Nigeria. Colonial system of transportation, monetary policies, land ordinances and colonial healthcare policies are typical examples of Nigeria’s colonial past. Similarly, scholars have interrogated the impact of the First World War on the colonial enclaves of the European powers in Africa, the quest for economic recovery of the metropolitan powers during the inter-war period, the breakdown of democratic ethos in Europe and other parts of the globe during the inter-war period, the acute economic hardship necessitated by unemployment of the inter-war period and the exploitation of African resources, particularly Nigeria, for the benefit of metropolitan capitals during the interwar years. These intellectual efforts have not comprehensively interrogated how import control was used by the British in Nigeria as a strategy for economic recovery of the post- World War 1 economic hardship as well as the sustenance of the recovery through import restrictions. The paper in its conclusion argues that import control in Nigeria during the inter-war Nigeria was used for the revamping of the British economy through import control policies that comprehensively protected the British economic interests in Nigeria.Item Nigeria's import control under regionalism: the colonial Northern Nigerian experience, 1954-1960(2021) Abolorunde, A. S.The colonization of Nigeria by the British opened a new vista in the history of the country. Colonial administrative structures in northern Nigeria included, native courts, native authorities, native treasury and a protectorate. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists and scholars of various disciplines have interrogated northern Nigerian history. Indirect rule System, colonial infrastructure, the rise of nationalism and colonial System of education are typical examples of northern Nigeria’s colonial experience. Similarly, scholars have made attempts at interrogating various aspects of the region’s colonial history. These include, colonial agricultural policies, colonial export control policies, marketing boards, trade restrictions, politics of decolonization, politics of transfer of power, constitutional developments, regionalism, nationalist movements, colonial tariff System and issues that deal with northern Nigeria. These intellectual efforts have not beamed their searchlight on how import control under regionalism was used as one of the strategies of decolonization process in northern Nigeria. It is against this backdrop that this paper interrogates import control as an economic policy which aided the entrenchment of regionalism in northern Nigeria. Import control under regionalism therefore became one of the strategies used by the colonial government in the devolution of some of its economic powers to the northern Nigerian region.Item The British strategy of dealing with national sabotage and the allies’ economic interests through wartime import control in Nigeria, 1939-1945(2021-12) Abolorunde, A. S.The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 had far-reaching impact on the history of the world, including the deployment of new strategies of war, the stresses and strains of the global economy and a global call for decolonisation. Through their works, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and economists have examined the developments that unfolded during the war. The mobilisation of the Allied powers’ resources against the Axis powers, the bombardments of the enemy’s territories within and outside Europe, the initial success of the Axis in the early stages of the war are typical examples of the developments that manifested during the Second World War. Similarly, scholars such as Kehinde Faluyi and Ayodeji Olukoju have interrogated the effects of the war on Africa, the various policies of the European powers in their respective colonies during the war, the mobilisation of human and material resources of these African colonies for war efforts, the impact of the war on the economy of the African continent as a whole, the nature of food supply from Nigeria as a colony for metropolitan war efforts and the intensification of economic blockade against the Axis’ economic presence in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. These intellectual efforts seem to have neglected how the British used import control in Nigeria as a wartime tool for dealing with metropolitan sabotage adopted against the British war effort and the intensification of economic blockade against the British wartime allies in Nigeria. The paper argues that the British deployed import control to curb the national sabotage of the manufacturers in Britain and restrict the economic presence of their allies during the war.