OzikoroBritain’s First Capital: Calabar’s Role as the Headquarters of the Niger Coast Protectorate and Its Influence on Modern Nigeria
Calabar, historically known as Old Calabar, played a central role in the early colonial administration of what would become modern Nigeria. From the late nineteenth century until the early twentieth century, Calabar served as the administrative headquarters of the British Oil Rivers Protectorate, the Niger Coast Protectorate, and later the Southern Nigeria Protectorate before the…