When we consider the aspect of development and evaluate the trends seen throughout history, a crucial player is colonialism. In many cases for thirds world countries, they wouldn’t have developed without the influence of colonial powers. However, just as colonialism might have assisted these countries, it did introduce new struggles. Therefore, this paper will be examining various layers of these struggles, specifically the influence of “colonial encounters." Furthermore, this paper will present the position that colonial encounter is not central to the creation and persistence of global racial and geo-political hierarchies, but instead that colonial encounters lead to the creation of “global racial and geo-political hierarchies." That being said, to support this notion I’ll be examining the case of Nigeria and its time spent under the British Colonialism. This paper will be investigating the impact of British Colonialism on Nigeria, with regards to its development. It will first asses the notion of “colonization” and colonial power, secondly it will identify various advantages and disadvantages of the British Colonization, and lastly, briefly examine the post-colonialism era. Part 1 – Coloniality of Power The concept of Coloniality of Power, focuses on the influence the colonial powers have. In short, their power allows them to control your labor, education, health care, religion and “social classification." It allows them power to re-identify you. As a result, the coloniality of power, allows the colonialist to determine social classification, based on your race. Furthermore, dependent on your classification, this impacted your standard of living. Education, religion, employment and health care are all reformed to your classification. Evidently, those of color were ranked the “lowest”, in comparison to the “white” race. In addition, the colonial power is also provided with labor control. This provided them influence over slavery, wages and trade. In short, the concept of coloniality of power led to the “erasing” of people identity, and reshaped to fit the norms of the colonialist. In addition, it created a new notion that the dominated or colonized people are inferior to the colonialist. Thus supporting this “social classification”, based on race. When applying this “social classification” and coloniality of power towards the case of Britain and Nigeria, the puzzle pieces fit. To further present how the british empire truly applied the concept of “coloniality of power”, we will first examine the advantages presented by the colonialism. Part 2 – Advantages of Colonialism Once colonialism reached its peak, many changes occurred to the Nigerian way of living. The Nigerian people experienced multiple stresses and reforms concerning their language, religion as well as their education, in hopes, of making them more “civilised”, according to the British(Cookey, 1979). However, there were benefits that came from those stresses, as well as colonialism as a whole. The contribution of British colonial rule to the improvement of social services was evidently a significant step forward in the development of the Nigerian economy. Improvements were seen in various health concerns: better sanitation, the introduction of modern hospitals, the training of health personnel at all levels, as well as the research into tropical diseases which led to a decline in the mortality rate and a rise in population. Many had argued that this “approach” wasn’t totally selfless mostly because the colonial regime was not unaware that a healthy and growing population would produce an increasing amount of supplies for export, in order to meet national needs. Nevertheless, Nigeria, because of its size, needed population growth if it was to effectively exploit its natural resources and create an acceptable market for its domestic products. The introduction of Western education by missionary societies into Nigeria wasn’t always welcomed, mainly amongst the Muslims. However, many non-Muslims did see the benefit for their children to have them properly educated and have their religious beliefs be polished in school (Cookey, 1979). The Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.) and the Methodist Missionary Society were the first British Christian organizations to set up schools in Nigeria. Most of their work was conducted in the southern half of Nigeria, where it was be