Warri Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===British Advent pre Warri City=== [[British colonial]]ism effectively took off in the Western [[Niger Delta]] with the proclamation of the Oil Coast Protectorate by [[Great Britain]] in June 1885. [[British colonial]] administration was carried out through local chiefs like Nana Olomu of Ebrohimi in [[Benin River]]. This administration was effectively restricted to Benin River and its environs as the [[British Empire|British]] were content with conducting [[trade]] with the people of the [[hinterland]]s through the [[Itsekiri people|Itsekiri]] as [[Intermediary|middlemen]]<ref>Lloyd, P. C. "The Itsekiri in the Nineteenth Century; An Outline Social History." The Journal of African History, vol. 4, no. 2, 1963, pp. 207β31. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/179535. Accessed 13 Jan. 2023. </ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page