Consequently, when Great Britain asserted its control over the region in 1893, it granted Abeokuta and the surrounding Egba region a degree of autonomy. Abeokutans protested their city's incorporation into British Nigeria in 1914.
Kwa lengo la kuimarisha umoja na ushirikiano kati ya chama cha ASP na chama cha Malawi Congress Party cha Malawi, Abeid Karume aliwaalika kuitembelea Zanzibar baadhi ya viongozi wa chama hicho cha Malawi mapema mwaka 1965.