JAMB - History (2021 - No. 11)

The Igbo's active resistance to British colonial rule is particaularly because of the

maladministration of the British indirect rule policy

regressive taxation of their society

egalitarian nature of their society

impression that British officials favoured the Northers

The Igbos were living without a political head (acepherlous system), this was a great challenge for the British to use the imperial system.