Year: | 1861 | ||
Short description: | British colony founded in Lagos, Nigeria | ||
Medium description: | [Kirkpatrick states 1914 and setting up of trading post in Lagos 1860. Further, that in the south of the country missionaries taught English whilst in the north English was taught at government schools by NS teachers from England. The missionaries were more intreseted in spreading religious belief than language. This led to RP gaining status in the north but not in the south] | ||
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