Colonialism is both a political and an economic system, where a powerful state conquers or dominates a weaker one, using conquest as a weapon to achieve this. Colonialism or colonial system is a sort of hegemonial relation designed exclusively for political domination and economic exploitation of the colonialized area. Colonialism equally assumes alien domination. It connotes the establishment and maintenance of an extended time to rule over an alien people that are separated from and subordinated to the ruling power. In this context therefore, a colonial relationship is created, when a nation establishes and maintains political and economic domination over a geographically external and inhabited by people of any race at any state of culture development. It is against this backdrop that this paper discusses the Nupe colonialism of Okunland of North Central Nigerian c.a. 1847-1897.
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