Open AccessCHANGE AND CONTINUITY AMONG THE BATOMBU SINCE 1900
Author(s) -
Emmanuel Oladipo Ojo,
Sabi Joshua Bio
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2664-4967
pISSN - 0257-4276
DOI - 10.46568/jssh.v57i1.75
Subject(s) - historiography , indigenous , colonialism , extant taxon , politics , colonial rule , civilization , position (finance) , political science , political economy , social science , sociology , development economics , history , law , economics , ecology , finance , evolutionary biology , biology
Like elsewhere in Nigeria and Africa, the imposition of colonial rule on Batombuland and the incursion of western ideas produced profound socio-cultural, economic and political changes in the Batombu society. However, unlike several Nigerian and African peoples whose histories have received extensive scholarly attention, the history of the Batombu has attracted very little scholarly attention. Thus virtually neglected, the Batombu occupies a mere footnote position in the extant historiography of Nigeria. This is the gap this article seeks to fill. It examines the impact of colonialism and western civilisation on Batombu’s political, social, economic and cultural institutions and concludes that as profound and far-reaching as these changes were some important aspects of the indigenous institutions and traditional practices of the people survived.