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===== Colonialism in the Niger Delta =====
With the collapse of European slave markets in the 1840s, French merchants ventured into the Niger Delta, aiming to enter the palm oil industry. In the following decades, France would appoint a Consul-General to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalabari_Kingdom Calabare]. The discovery of quinine in the 1850s reduced the risk of lethal disease and allowed French explorers and merchants to expand their colonial interests. In 1858, the Belmont expedition established relations with the principalities of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zazzau#Early_Hausa_kingdom Zazzau] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Kano Kano].
== Second Republic (1874-1877) ==
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==== 1944 Elections ====
▲== In the 1944 elections, Dormoy was re-affirmed as the nation's president, narrowly beating his opponent. He supported and continued the efforts of the British to curb the influence of communardism. Along with this, he restored free speech in France and granted clemency to former political prisoners who were arrested during Laframboise's dictatorial regime. The ban of the National Republicanism in France was lifted in 1946. He was later known in history to be a weak and indecisive leader, contributing to France's political instability during the 1940s and 1950s. ==
==== Cavendish Affair (1945) & Monarchism in France ====
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