LORD LUGARDS MAGIC AND FLORA SHAWS SPELL...........by Femi Fani-Kayode

In 1916, Lord Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, the
1st Baron Lugard, the fourteenth Governor of Hong
Kong and the first Governor-General of Nigeria,
said the following:
“Lagos has for 20 years opposed every Governor
and has fomented strife and bloodshed in the
hinterland. I have spent the best part of my life in
Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the
natives for whom I have been ready to give my
life. But after some 29 years, and after nearly 12
years as Governor here, I am free to say that the
people of Lagos and indeed the westerners are the
lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most
purely prompted by self-seeking money motives of
any people I have met.”
As if that were not bad enough, two years later, on
September 25th 1918, in a letter to his colleague
Walter H. Lang, Lugard wrote the following:
"The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions
save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist,
spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral
and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to
any community to which he seeks to attach
himself."
Lugard's words are utterly reprehensible. They
represent the most appalling examples of racial
stereotyping that I have ever seen. Yet he didn't
stop there. In his book titled 'The Dual
Mandate' (pg. 70) 1926 he wrote the following:
"In character and temperament, the typical African
of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable
person. LACKING IN SELF-CONTROL, DISCIPLINE,
AND FORESIGHT. Naturally courageous, and
naturally courteous and polite, full of personal
vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music
and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewelry.
HIS THOUGHTS ARE CONCENTRATED ON THE
EVENTS AND FEELINGS OF THE MOMENT, and he
suffers little from the apprehension for the future,
or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the
animal world than that of the European or Asiatic,
and exhibits something of the animals' placidity
and want of desire to rise beyond the State he has
reached. Through the ages THE AFRICAN APPEARS
TO HAVE EVOLVED NO ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS
CREED, and though some tribes appear to believe
in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above
pantheistic animalism and seems more often to
take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural
. HE LACKS THE POWER OF ORGANIZATION, and is
conspicuously deficient in the management and
control alike of men or business. HE LOVES THE
DISPLAY OF POWER, but fails to realize its
responsibility... he will work hard with a less
incentive than most races. He has the courage of
the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral
virtue... In brief, the virtues and defects of this
race-type are those of attractive children, whose
confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as
to an older and wiser superior and without
envy...Perhaps the two traits which have
impressed me as those most characteristic of the
African native are HIS LACK OF APPREHENSION
AND HIS LACK OF ABILITY TO VISUALIZE THE
FUTURE."
There can be little doubt that this arrogant
englishman was a rabid racialist who had nothing
but the deepest contempt for our people. He was
also one of the most uncouth and vulgar souls that
ever polluted our shores with his unwholesome
and malevolent presence.
It is one of the greatest ironies of modern history
that this ignorant seafarer was the individual that
recommended to the British Colonial Office that the
Northern and Southern Protectorates of Nigeria and
the Lagos colony, should all be merged into one
large country.
That recommendation was accepted and
consequently Lord Lugard can legitimately be
described as the chief architect of modern-day
Nigeria.
It was actually Lord Lugard's wife, Miss Flora
Shaw, that proposed the name Nigeria for our
country. This was done in an article that she wrote
for the London Times on January 8th 1897. She
and Lugard got married five years later in June
1902 after which she became known as Lady Flora
Lugard.
Shaw was well connected. Her mother was a
French lady of Mauritian stock by the name of
Marie Adrienne Josephine and her father was
Major-General George Shaw, a respected British
army officer. She was colonial editor of the Times
of London where she wrote an influential weekly
column titled ''The Colony''.
She was not only stunningly beautiful but she also
had vision and substance. Given that, one finds it
difficult to comprehend what an enterprising and
extraordinary woman like this found attractive in an
abominable scalywag like Lord Lugard. I daresay
that this was a classic case of the beauty and the
beast.
Despite his pretensions of love Lugard despised
the numerous ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and he
continuously expressed his contempt for us with
his insulting and condescending commentaries.
Perhaps his best known intervention was made in
1914 in a letter that he wrote to the British
government just a few weeks prior to the
amalgamation. He wrote as follows:
"What we often call the Northern Protectorate of
Nigeria today can be better described as the poor
husband whilst it's southern counterpart can be
fairly described as the rich wife or the woman of
substance and means. A forced union of marriage
between the two will undoubtedly result in peace,
prosperity and marital bliss for both husband and
wife for many years to come. It is my prayer that
that union will last forever".
From this contribution it is clear that ours was a
''forced'' union. It is also clear that Lugard saw
northern Nigeria as a ''poor husband'' that needed
constant attention and support whilst he saw
southern Nigeria as nothing more than a ''rich
wife'' or a ''woman of substance and means''
whose plight was to be constantly pillaged and
ravished.
This was his vision: a northern Nigeria that was
essentially the ''head of the household'' and that
would remain in control of all the power and
resources of the state and a southern Nigeria that
would play the role of a passive and subservient
wife whose destiny it was to remain in perpetual
subjugation and bondage.
Sadly this was the crooked foundation upon which
our union was built. What made it even worse was
the fact that the so-called ''southern wife'' and
''northern husband'' were never asked if they
wanted the marriage in the first place.
The truth is that the British colonialists were
masters of divide and rule. The amalgamation of
the southern and northern protectorates was a
Greek gift which was designed to fail and to
crumble at the appropriate time. Nigerians have
done well to have held it together for so long and
the fact that we have only experienced one civil
war is miraculous.
Despite all pretensions, the only thing that has
kept us together is the oil of the Niger-Delta and
the extraordinary resilience, patience, faith,
fortitude, zeal and strength of the Nigerian people
themselves.Mr. Sola Adebowale, a writer,
understood the mindset of Lord Lugard. He
captured it rather well on Facebook in 2014 when
he wrote the following:
''Lugard was a stark illiterate and it was quite
unfortunate that that was the best that imperial
Britain could send to Africa. Hence he was noted
to have vehemently opposed native education for
Africans. And he was said to have loathed the
educated and sophisticated Africans of the
southern coastal regions who had been educated
by the Christian Missionaries before him and
instead wined and dined and positioned the
uneducated feudal hordes of Africa to the forefront
of leadership of Africa. Is that not the albatross
against many African nations till date? Hence the
moral right of Devil Lugard to pontificate about
Africans is questionable''.
Mr. Adebowale has hit the nail on the head. I
concur with his submissions.
Permit me to end this contribution with an
interesting aside. It is generally agreed though not
commonly admitted that both Lugard and Flora
Shaw were Luciferians who practiced the black arts
and all manner of satanic rituals.
He was a "High Priest of the Freemasons" whilst
they were both avid folllowers of Aleister Crowley,
the leading satanist of his day and the self-styled
"worlds most wicked man".
This explains a lot. It also explains why Shaw gave
us the name "Nigeria"- a name which has
questionable roots. Anyone that doubts this should
consider the literal translation of Nigeria from latin:
it means "the area of darkness" and there is a
deep spiritual and mystical reason that she gave
us that name. It comes with a lot of baggage
because not much good can come out of an area
of darkness.
Most of the former British colonies changed their
names after independence for similar reasons but
because most of our leaders in Nigeria were not
aware of these matters they refused to do so.
Lugard and Shàw were an unlikely couple who had
no children. What held them together was more
spiritual and mystical than anything else and
Nigeria and the Sudan are their joint legacy to the
world.
Sadly both countries are having major challenges
today. Sudan has broken into two after a
protracted and bitter civil war whilst Nigeria is
experiencing serious regional, ethnic and religious
tensions. It is clear that our nation needs a good
deal of prayer. May God deliver us from Lord
Lugard's magic and his beautiful wife's spell.