ABSTRACT
The change in missionary theory concerning the Native corresponds to a similar change in the theory of government. The evidence is abundant that the Moslem people desire a wider opportunity for education than that which is open to them in their own Koran schools and in the Government institutions. In education the authorities have done practically nothing to develop the Moslem people, although there are many Government schools among them, and by being true to the letter of “indirect rule,” they have missed the spirit of it. Many Government servants truly believe that somehow Islam is a better religion for the black man than Christianity. A native system of government is looked upon as a matter of static organization rather than as a living thing growing and changing because it must. The British recognition of an authority which to the Hausa is an accident, has deprived the Hausa of any possibility of a government by men of their own people.
