The role of George Goldie in Nigeria

 The real Founding father of Nigeria 

Without George Goldie its unlikely Nigeria would exist. Goldie is the brain behind the creation of the place Nigeria. He was present at the 1884-1885  Berlin Conference  meetings where white Europeans  not only carved up the map of Africa, but gave Africans new identity without their knowledge.

The Role of George Goldie in the creation of the place called Nigeria  is similar  to  Cecil Rhodes of Rhodesia now called Zimbabwe. In fact they were going to  name Nigeria Goldiesia.

George Goldie like a thief transferred the ownership of our ancestral lands our territory (your people , your land were seen as a commodity) to the British Government  for the sum of £850,000 (£110 million in today's  money)in 1900; the area transferred was formed into Southern and Northern  Protectorate.

In 1914, Goldie's dream became  reality when both Protectorates were  stitched together  to form what would later be known as Nigeria.

Lugard an Ordinary British  mercenary made the Dream a reality , his Girlfriend  , Flora  Shaw later coined the name "Nigeria"

What British colonialists ended up doing is  stitching together a place made of diverse people, languages and cultures.  Since then these nations within the Royal Niger Company called Nigeria have been battling and killing each other for a peace that continues to elude them.

Thinkers Edited 

What is amazing about Goldie is he destroyed all his papers of his project and said "I  never want to be spoken of - the less you say about me the happier I shall be"  A very important question is why ?

Nigeria will never happen to us again.

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Credit Arabinrin Sola