My New Black Magazine - NYU Black Renaissance Noire BRN-FALL-206 ISSUE RELEASE | Page 178

Nigeria’s history will remain
unintelligible, and much about it will
seem senseless, until we glimpse the
hidden dynamics that has dominated
and shaped it since 1950, namely the
Caliphate’s colonialist agenda and the
confused and uncoordinated resistance
to it.
The political violence [pogroms, coups,
civil war, assassinations, judicial murders,
terrorism, etc.] that has marked Nigeria
from the 1950s has been in furtherance
of, or in resistance to, Caliphate
Colonialism. These have ranged from
1.

the (Caliphate-organized) 1953
Kano