ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at Igbo resistance and discusses the patterns which seem to emerge. It offers some explanation why it was that even though the threat posed by the British was the same, Igbo reaction varied from place to place. There were three main types of Igbo resistance to the British military challenge. The first type concerns the response of those communities who refused to see the messengers of the British and who from the very beginning reached out for their guns and matchets as their response to the presence of the white man in their territory. The second type of resistance by the Igbo against British conquest involved first diplomacy and then war. The third type deals with those communities which, did everything possible to avoid armed encounters with the British, relying instead on magic and the intervention of their gods to drive the British back into the sea.
