NSUKKA, NIGERIA — Before the white man landed on the shores of Nigeria at Calabar precisely, Nigerians had their own way of life. They had their own languages, fashion, music and dance, aesthetic concepts, medicine, religion, beliefs and even pattern of government.
The French, in the areas now referred to as Francophone countries adopted the policy of association and assimilation which entailed the natives to abandone their indigenous ways of life. To the French colonialists, the African way of life was barbaric.