sentences:  The area of the Sokoto Caliphate was divided among the control of the British, French, and Germans under the terms of their Berlin Conference.The British established the Northern Nigeria Protectorate to govern the region, which included most of the Sokoto empire and its most important emirates.Under Lugard, the various emirs were provided significant local autonomy, thus retaining much of the political organisation of the Sokoto Caliphate.