Tax Revolts in Yorubaland, 1925-1955
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2023
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Most researches have generally regarded taxation as the main reason for
revolt in colonial Nigeria. There are good reasons to believe that there were
other significant tax related considerations, other than taxation, that were re sponsible for the revolts that were thrown up in the late colonial south-western
Nigeria. Some scholars have also noted a comparative process that is currently
unfolding; that it was the need to raise money that forced the hands of the co lonial authority into democratization and that the despondency of the indige nous population was a major reason for the crises that enveloped Yorubaland
from 1925 up to 1955. These claims have been fully tested. In this article ‘Tax
Revolts in Yoruba land, 1925-1955’, questions are asked and arguments ex plored using archival and oral evidences. The study found that the high hand edness of Native Authority and other social and economic considerations were
genuine reasons for the discontent of the indigenous population, and these
were significant constraints that morphed into spontaneous violent responses
across Yorubaland against British colonialism.
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British, Colonial, Taxation, Revolts, Yorubaland
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20. Afolabi, A.S. (2023) Tax Revolts in Yorubaland, 1925-1955, Yoruba Studies Review, Vol. 8, (1): Pp. 35 - 51, Published by the Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, United States of America