My New Black Magazine - NYU Black Renaissance Noire BRN-FALL-206 ISSUE RELEASE | Seite 188

[The Robertson stage (1955-1960) of
the Harcourt-Lugard-Robertson plan
of permanent Northern rule.
(pp.294-306)]

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q8) 1955-1960
SUCCESSION CLAIMS 1959/1960:
BRITAIN HANDED OVER
TO NORTHERN LEADERS
The next phase in Nigerian history
was the decolonisation period
and it involved the resolution of
the succession claims, erroneously
though, of the three major
nationalities, Hausa-Fulani
(North), Yoruba (West) and Igbo
(East) during this period.
It centred around who would
succeed the colonial government
between 1955 and 1960….Sir
James Robertson was the shrewd
implementor of Northern rule
earlier fashioned by Lords
Harcourt and Lugard. Sir James
was especially recruited by the
British Government