Subjugating a Nation - Colonialism

Colonial officials and traditional rulers in ceremonial order: authority under colonialism, in which imperial power and the subjugated traditional authority it ruled through held together in uneasy coexistence.

Soldiers of the Royal West African Frontier Force, Britain's colonial army in the region, return from service in the Second World War.

An officer of the West African Frontier Force, the British colonial army raised from local recruits to garrison and control Nigeria.

An officer of the West African Frontier Force on ceremonial parade.

A kit inspection parade of the West African Frontier Force during the colonial era.

Soldiers of the West African Frontier Force under inspection during a ceremonial parade.

A British colonial officer inspects soldiers of the West African Frontier Force during a ceremonial parade.

Enlistment into the West African Frontier Force, through which Britain recruited Nigerians into its colonial army.

New recruits of the West African Frontier Force on parade.

A British colonial officer inspects soldiers of the West African Frontier Force during a ceremonial parade.

British colonial officers at breakfast.

Soldiers of the West African Frontier Force with domestic staff and their British colonial officers.

Local recruitment of Nigerian soldiers into the Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force, the force that would later become the nucleus of the Nigerian Army.