Agatu-Alago Relations in the Colonial Days, 1900-1960

Abstract

The paper examined how the British colonial rule impinged on Agatu - Alago Relations in the Colonial Days, 1900-1960", it is also an attempt to reconstruct the intergroup interplay and relationship between the Agatu and the Alago in present day Nasarawa State, North Central Nigeria since their Colonial history as ethnic groups and Neighbors. In order to achieve the objective of the paper, which is hinged on the Agatu – Alago relations, the paper adopted the historical methodology of research using primary, secondary and tertiary sources of data. The primary sources were basically derived from oral interview. From findings, the paper gathered that their epochal relationships cut across spectrum of relationships. These relationships captured in the paper includes: Socio-Cultural, economic, political and historical ties. The paper also unearths contemporary changes and evolving events within the scope of the research. The groups are found intertwined in their contemporary endevours. The groups is breaking their intergroup relationships in present day are quite proven based on their affinity since the Apa homeland in the defunct Kwararafa confederacy. The methodology adopted in the completion of this paper is anchored on multidisciplinary approach in historiography. The paper had challenges in the course of the investigation bothered on lack of credible informants as many are lost to death on the both sides but the availability of rich archival documentation on the group by colonial ethnographers came handy. The paper is valuable addition to deliberate attempt by scholars to promote intergroup relations anchored in peace and transquility.