History & Governance/ Pre-Colonial Slavery & Colonial Legal History
Key Actors — British (British Conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate)
6records·3 fields·csv·712 B·West Africa, tracking the imperial command centers, corporate boardrooms, mapping routes, and forward military headquarters across Northern Nigeria—specifically profiling operational corridors extending from the Niger-Benue confluence through Nupe, Bida, Kontagora, and Ilorin, up to the high-intensity northern conflict zones of Bebeji, Kano, and the metropolitan capital of Sokoto.·1897 A.D. – March 1903 A.D.
A structured prosopographical, biographical, and imperial-administrative dataset profiling 6 foundational British colonial officers, military commanders, company directors, and exploration scouts who engineered the strategic orchestration, diplomatic coercion, territorial intelligence gathering, and ultimate military execution of the conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate between 1897 A.D. and 1903 A.D..
Source & Methodology
Extracted from primary British War Office archives, private colonial diaries, official administrative gazettes of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate, and the corporate records of the Royal Niger Company systemized within foundational multi-volume monographs detailing the fall of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Related Project
project / historical-political-western-sahel →Schema — 3 fields
British ActorsProsopographical RegistryColonial CommandersFrederick LugardColonel MorlandResident DyerCaptain O'NeilGeorge GoldieRoyal Niger CompanyCorporate DeceptionWAFF Survey PartiesMilitary IntelligenceBebeji AdvanceIlorin Resistance FearsCounter InsurgencyCasus BelliAsymmetric Conquest