What you'll learn

• Give various definitions of nationalism.
• Discuss the origin of nationalism
• Early resistance to the imposition of British rule studying the activities of; Jaja of Opobo, Awujale of Ijebu-ode and Ovonranewen of Benin.
• Colonial policies and elite discontent.
• The role of early Christian church in the emergence of nationalism.
• Formation of National Congress of British West Africa.
• The Clifford Constitution and the formation of the NNDP and NYM.