Resistance+to+Colonial+Rule+Summary


 * In response to the British colonial rule, some Igbo communities actively rejected British annexation by preparing for war and resistance movements
 * Some of the earliest and fiercest military clashes occurred in Western Igboland since many Western Igbo towns had suffered economic, political decline due to the activities carried out by the British. It was also the Western Igbo communities that launched the Ekumeku movement
 * Ekumeku movement:
 * aimed at preventing the disintegration of Igbo society and the advance of British imperialism
 * result of a sustained, continued period of political disturbances
 * most attacks/plans were done in secret, silence (often used guerrilla tactics)
 * could gain widely-spread support
 * The Western Igbo resistance was crushed in 1914