European Colonialism in Africa It was created by the colonial state for the white colonial class Anti-colonial struggle may thus be interpreted as being directed both against the colonial state and colonial civil society The demands of the anti-colonial movements implied that fundamental civil and human rights should be extended to all members of society, not only the colonisers.

Chinua Achebe One of the founders of the new literature the first Nigerian writer to successfully transmute the conventions of the novel “Any good story, any good novel, should have a message, should have a purpose.”

Nigeria Once was a colony of Britian Independence: 1 October 1960 Type: military government since 31 December 1983; plans to institute a constitutional conference to prepare for a new transition to civilian rule after plans for a transition in 1993 were negated by General BABANGIDA