Igbo+Resistance+to+Colonial+Rule+The+Ekumeku+Movement

Some Igbo communities rejected the annexation of the British. Even before the British conquest, Western Igbo communities suffered from the military, political, and economic decline brought about by the British intervention. Hence some of the earliest and fiercest resistances took place in Western Igboland. The resistance body consisted of young men who took the oath of secrecy enrollment for service. They used encoded messages and met in secret places. They attacked their several targets simultaneously to cause panic and unrest among the European and Christian communities. The resistance body was finally ended at 1914.