Unlike Vietnam or India, Nigeria did not have to struggle so hard for freedom. Can you find some explanations for this?

Nigeria, India, and Vietnam were colonial countries. They definitely undergo severe social, cultural, economic and political exploitations during the colonial rule. India and Nigeria were ruled by the UK. Vietnam was under the control of France. Comparing with India and Vietnam; Nigeria had a less hard struggle for independence because:

1) Nigeria possessed territorial nationalism.

• By definition, “Territorial nationalism describes a form of nationalism based on the belief that all inhabitants of a particular territory should share a common national identity, regardless of their ethnic, linguistic, religious, cultural and other differences.”

• Ethnicity was so strong that it was superior to citizenship.

• The unity within the tribe was very intense.

2) The integrated struggle by ethnic groups

Nigeria possessed more than 250 ethnic groups. It was difficult to bring unity among them. But at the same time, it was easy to make unity within each group. The collaboration of the efforts from each ethnic group to the nationalist freedom movement was immense.