Urban segregation policy represents one of the dramatic changes fosteredby colonialism with far reaching impact on politics of protests and identityconsciousness among immigrants. It is argued that despite the considerablebody of interdisciplinary studies that the theme of urban segregationgenerated, urban historiography in Nigeria has been influenced by theparadigms of Universalist ethic of public health and political development tothe exclusion of power structures. The paper theorises on politics of protests,search for identity and resistance of the subalterns and migrants inSabongari Kano against colonial policies to control over-urbanisationprocesses between 1911 and 1960. Plot Holders’ Association, Sabongariresisted attempts by the colonial officials to demolish over-built and overpopulatedplots without due regards to livelihoods, taxation, family values,and indeed, the Building Ordinance that came into existence almost twodecades after such buildings were constructed. In British Africa, urbansegregation policies such as Sabongari system were predicated on publichealth, religious and cultural differences but there were political andeconomic interests as well. The paper further explores how colonialsegregation policy in Sabongari fostered over-urbanisation illustrated byovercrowding, poor sanitation, infectious diseases, unemployment,prostitution, overstressed social infrastructure and crime unequalled in theKano urban complex.
{"title":"Ordering Urban Space and Migrants’ Protests in Sabongari, Kano, 1911 – 1960","authors":"R. Olaniyi","doi":"10.4314/LHR.V11I1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LHR.V11I1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Urban segregation policy represents one of the dramatic changes fosteredby colonialism with far reaching impact on politics of protests and identityconsciousness among immigrants. It is argued that despite the considerablebody of interdisciplinary studies that the theme of urban segregationgenerated, urban historiography in Nigeria has been influenced by theparadigms of Universalist ethic of public health and political development tothe exclusion of power structures. The paper theorises on politics of protests,search for identity and resistance of the subalterns and migrants inSabongari Kano against colonial policies to control over-urbanisationprocesses between 1911 and 1960. Plot Holders’ Association, Sabongariresisted attempts by the colonial officials to demolish over-built and overpopulatedplots without due regards to livelihoods, taxation, family values,and indeed, the Building Ordinance that came into existence almost twodecades after such buildings were constructed. In British Africa, urbansegregation policies such as Sabongari system were predicated on publichealth, religious and cultural differences but there were political andeconomic interests as well. The paper further explores how colonialsegregation policy in Sabongari fostered over-urbanisation illustrated byovercrowding, poor sanitation, infectious diseases, unemployment,prostitution, overstressed social infrastructure and crime unequalled in theKano urban complex.","PeriodicalId":339050,"journal":{"name":"Lagos Historical Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123911759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The African City: A History","authors":"P. Osifodunrin","doi":"10.4314/LHR.V10I1.64161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LHR.V10I1.64161","url":null,"abstract":"Title: The African City: A History Author: Bill Freund Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, x + 214 pp.","PeriodicalId":339050,"journal":{"name":"Lagos Historical Review","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133577052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
By the beginning of the 20th Century the bifurcation of the African continent amongst the major colonial powers, including France, Britain and Germany, was a foregone conclusion. The establishment of European rule in the continent was difficult and protracted than was ever anticipated by the colonial powers. Some African polities resisted colonial rule in many forms including wars and songs. This paper aims to write the history of yet another form of resistance to colonial rule in British Africa with a focus on telephone operators in the erstwhile Cameroons Province. The pith and kernel of the paper therefore is to show how telephone operators resisted the colonial administration. This typology of resistance is yet to receive adequate attention in the historiography of resistance within the British colonial sphere in general and that of the Cameroons Province during the first decades of the mandate period in particular. Archives in Cameroon and London were consulted as well as secondary literature. Deriving from these sources the paper contends that the resistance to British colonial administration by telephone operators was subtle, nagging and provocative.
{"title":"Telephone Operators’ Resistance to British Colonial Administration in the Cameroons Province, 1917 – 1931","authors":"W. Nkwi","doi":"10.4314/LHR.V10I1.64156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LHR.V10I1.64156","url":null,"abstract":"By the beginning of the 20th Century the bifurcation of the African continent amongst the major colonial powers, including France, Britain and Germany, was a foregone conclusion. The establishment of European rule in the continent was difficult and protracted than was ever anticipated by the colonial powers. Some African polities resisted colonial rule in many forms including wars and songs. This paper aims to write the history of yet another form of resistance to colonial rule in British Africa with a focus on telephone operators in the erstwhile Cameroons Province. The pith and kernel of the paper therefore is to show how telephone operators resisted the colonial administration. This typology of resistance is yet to receive adequate attention in the historiography of resistance within the British colonial sphere in general and that of the Cameroons Province during the first decades of the mandate period in particular. Archives in Cameroon and London were consulted as well as secondary literature. Deriving from these sources the paper contends that the resistance to British colonial administration by telephone operators was subtle, nagging and provocative.","PeriodicalId":339050,"journal":{"name":"Lagos Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121975859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines the genesis of racial segregation in Braamfontein Cemetery. I ask, how and why, did the older Judeo-Christian idea of the cemetery as sacred ground, when transported into South Africa, become transmogrified into the idea of the cemetery as racially purified terrain? How indeed did this “racialisation” of consecrated soil affect the codes of mourning in early Johannesburg? And did these changing mortuary practices point to a more profound re-conceptualization of the idea of death, the experience and management of bereavement and grief, and the value and treatment of the dead body in early modern South Africa? Indeed, what is the place of the dead in South Africa and how can we interrogate and locate within the very sanctuaries of the dead the meanings South Africans have attached to the disposal of the dead and the ways in which these have changed under the torrent of the racial conflict in South Africa? To answer these questions the paper draws attention to the city’s first bye-laws and regulations governing the use of Braamfontein Cemetery. These laws were demonstrative of the city’s decision to seek control over the disposal of the dead. The paper explores the development and implementation of the horticultural and landscaping programs in Braamfontein Cemetery and argues that the efforts to sanitize burial, privatize grief, and impose a new aesthetics on the cemetery’s physical appearance represented a profound reconceptualization of the place of the dead leading to the codification of racial segregation in South Africa’s cemeteries.
{"title":"'Sacred places, racial homilies': the genesis of the segregated cemetery in Johannesburg, 1886-1909","authors":"G. M. Dennie","doi":"10.4314/LHR.V10I1.64155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LHR.V10I1.64155","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the genesis of racial segregation in Braamfontein Cemetery. I ask, how and why, did the older Judeo-Christian idea of the cemetery as sacred ground, when transported into South Africa, become transmogrified into the idea of the cemetery as racially purified terrain? How indeed did this “racialisation” of consecrated soil affect the codes of mourning in early Johannesburg? And did these changing mortuary practices point to a more profound re-conceptualization of the idea of death, the experience and management of bereavement and grief, and the value and treatment of the dead body in early modern South Africa? Indeed, what is the place of the dead in South Africa and how can we interrogate and locate within the very sanctuaries of the dead the meanings South Africans have attached to the disposal of the dead and the ways in which these have changed under the torrent of the racial conflict in South Africa? To answer these questions the paper draws attention to the city’s first bye-laws and regulations governing the use of Braamfontein Cemetery. These laws were demonstrative of the city’s decision to seek control over the disposal of the dead. The paper explores the development and implementation of the horticultural and landscaping programs in Braamfontein Cemetery and argues that the efforts to sanitize burial, privatize grief, and impose a new aesthetics on the cemetery’s physical appearance represented a profound reconceptualization of the place of the dead leading to the codification of racial segregation in South Africa’s cemeteries.","PeriodicalId":339050,"journal":{"name":"Lagos Historical Review","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132104431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines the role and impact of road transportation on the economy of southwestern Nigeria after World War II. The focus is on how road transportation promoted agriculture and trade. The study of the post World War II period is important because it enables us to examine two crucial elements in the economic history of Nigeria. On the one hand is the pursuit of British colonial economic interests and on the other is the nationalist agenda in the era of transition to self rule. The post World War II period is divided into two phases: the first, from 1945 to 1952, covers the period of British administration of the Western region of Nigeria. During this period, the colonial government used road transportation as a means of pursuing her economic interests in Nigeria. This, of course, had been the pattern of colonial rule since its inauguration in Nigeria at the beginning of the century. The second phase runs from 1952 to independence in 1960. This was the era of the first indigenous government in the Western region. From that date, the history of road transportation in Nigeria took a new turn. Indeed, compared to the pre 1952 era when road transportation was used to further colonial interests, the indigenous government began to take concrete steps to transform the economy of the region and uplift the living conditions of the people. In the pursuit of this, government used road transportation as an instrument to bring about the desired social and economic transformation.
{"title":"Road Transportation, Agriculture and Trade in Western Nigeria after World War II","authors":"O. Olúbòmęhìn","doi":"10.4314/LHR.V10I1.64158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LHR.V10I1.64158","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the role and impact of road transportation on the economy of southwestern Nigeria after World War II. The focus is on how road transportation promoted agriculture and trade. The study of the post World War II period is important because it enables us to examine two crucial elements in the economic history of Nigeria. On the one hand is the pursuit of British colonial economic interests and on the other is the nationalist agenda in the era of transition to self rule. The post World War II period is divided into two phases: the first, from 1945 to 1952, covers the period of British administration of the Western region of Nigeria. During this period, the colonial government used road transportation as a means of pursuing her economic interests in Nigeria. This, of course, had been the pattern of colonial rule since its inauguration in Nigeria at the beginning of the century. The second phase runs from 1952 to independence in 1960. This was the era of the first indigenous government in the Western region. From that date, the history of road transportation in Nigeria took a new turn. Indeed, compared to the pre 1952 era when road transportation was used to further colonial interests, the indigenous government began to take concrete steps to transform the economy of the region and uplift the living conditions of the people. In the pursuit of this, government used road transportation as an instrument to bring about the desired social and economic transformation.","PeriodicalId":339050,"journal":{"name":"Lagos Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128823789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studies on the status of African traditional rulers during colonial rule have repeatedly emphasized the denigration of the position, power and influence of traditional chiefs during the colonial period. But for a more balanced appraisal of the impact of colonialism, African traditional rulers needed not only to be presented as losers. This paper focuses on the role played by traditional rulers in Cameroon during the period of German colonial rule. It demonstrates that notwithstanding the treatment meted out to chiefs by the German colonialists, African traditional rulers exploited their positions within the colonial dispensation to protect and advance their interests. One major outcome was that there were noticeable transformations and shifts in local and regional power relations amongst traditional chiefs. Some local chiefs gained greater recognition with indisputable accompanying influence and some of such gains have survived to the post-colonial period.
{"title":"German Colonialism and the Cameroonian Chieftaincy Institution, 1884-1916: The Politics of Convenience, Tyranny and Hegemony","authors":"N. Mbapndah, Walters Samah","doi":"10.4314/LHR.V9I1.48055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LHR.V9I1.48055","url":null,"abstract":"Studies on the status of African traditional rulers during colonial rule have repeatedly emphasized the denigration of the position, power and influence of traditional chiefs during the colonial period. But for a more balanced appraisal of the impact of colonialism, African traditional rulers needed not only to be presented as losers. This paper focuses on the role played by traditional rulers in Cameroon during the period of German colonial rule. It demonstrates that notwithstanding the treatment meted out to chiefs by the German colonialists, African traditional rulers exploited their positions within the colonial dispensation to protect and advance their interests. One major outcome was that there were noticeable transformations and shifts in local and regional power relations amongst traditional chiefs. Some local chiefs gained greater recognition with indisputable accompanying influence and some of such gains have survived to the post-colonial period.","PeriodicalId":339050,"journal":{"name":"Lagos Historical Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128971881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The colonial enterprise sustained its raison d'etre through the concoction of a historiography that denied the historicity, humanity and governance capacity of Africans. Against a background of this denial levitated nationalist historiographical schools which challenged such myths. But their ideologies circulated within the confines of their colonial linguistic legacies although they shared the same decolonisation agenda. This paper focuses on the separate and uncoordinated efforts of intellectuals in the Anglophone and Francophone worlds to demystify and combat colonialism and consolidate the nascent nation-states through ideological revisionism and re-statement in the shape of nationalist historiographies. The ideological ammunition to combat colonialism in the Anglophone world was packaged and championed by the Ibadan School of History while in the Francophone world a similar task fell on the Dakar School of History. But the colonial iron curtain kept these two schools apart and even in the postcolony they are still largely strangers to each other as little or no space is devoted in their respective history curriculum to each other‟s nationalist historiography. The resurgence of the historiography of colonial domination in the third millennium among the third millennium imperialist class did not receive a joint African intellectual response. Only Francophone scholars reposted when the French political class resuscitated the idea of Africa‟s exceptionality of not belonging to universal history and of its exclusive responsibility for its own woes. The authors advocate a more concerted pan-African intellectual response to imperialist attacks on the dignity of Africans.
殖民事业通过炮制一种否认非洲人的历史性、人性和治理能力的史学来维持其存在的理由。在这种否认的背景下，民族主义史学流派兴起，挑战这种神话。但他们的意识形态在各自的殖民语言遗产范围内传播，尽管他们有着相同的去殖民化议程。本文关注的是英语国家和法语国家的知识分子通过意识形态修正主义和民族主义史学形式的重新陈述，分别和不协调地努力消除和对抗殖民主义，巩固新生的民族国家。在英语国家，伊巴丹历史学派(Ibadan School of History)包装并倡导了对抗殖民主义的意识形态弹药，而在法语国家，达喀尔历史学派(Dakar School of History)承担了类似的任务。但是殖民时期的铁幕把这两所学校分开了，即使在后殖民时期，他们在很大程度上仍然是陌生人，因为在各自的历史课程中，他们很少或根本没有为彼此的民族主义历史编纂留出空间。殖民统治史学在第三个千年的复兴在第三个千年的帝国主义阶级中并没有得到非洲知识分子的共同回应。只有讲法语的学者才转载了法国政治阶层复兴的观点，即非洲是例外的，不属于世界历史，只对自己的苦难负责。两位作者主张，对于帝国主义对非洲人尊严的攻击，泛非知识分子应采取更协调一致的回应。
{"title":"Bifurcated World of African Nationalist Historiography","authors":"N. F. Awasom, Ousman M Bojang","doi":"10.4314/LHR.V9I1.48056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LHR.V9I1.48056","url":null,"abstract":"The colonial enterprise sustained its raison d'etre through the concoction of a historiography that denied the historicity, humanity and governance capacity of Africans. Against a background of this denial levitated nationalist historiographical schools which challenged such myths. But their ideologies circulated within the confines of their colonial linguistic legacies although they shared the same decolonisation agenda. This paper focuses on the separate and uncoordinated efforts of intellectuals in the Anglophone and Francophone worlds to demystify and combat colonialism and consolidate the nascent nation-states through ideological revisionism and re-statement in the shape of nationalist historiographies. The ideological ammunition to combat colonialism in the Anglophone world was packaged and championed by the Ibadan School of History while in the Francophone world a similar task fell on the Dakar School of History. But the colonial iron curtain kept these two schools apart and even in the postcolony they are still largely strangers to each other as little or no space is devoted in their respective history curriculum to each other‟s nationalist historiography. The resurgence of the historiography of colonial domination in the third millennium among the third millennium imperialist class did not receive a joint African intellectual response. Only Francophone scholars reposted when the French political class resuscitated the idea of Africa‟s exceptionality of not belonging to universal history and of its exclusive responsibility for its own woes. The authors advocate a more concerted pan-African intellectual response to imperialist attacks on the dignity of Africans.","PeriodicalId":339050,"journal":{"name":"Lagos Historical Review","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121711419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victims of all slave trading systems in Africa always included significant numbers of children, but, until the nineteenth century, these formed smaller proportions of total volumes of trade slaves. Following abolition, however, the age/sex ratio of trade slaves began to shift as slave trading in children increased. Child-slave trading assumed a more expansive dimension when later in the nineteenth century European colonial powers, as a strategy for interfering and destroying indigenous slavery in their colonies, outlawed and criminalized slave trading. In Ghana a brisk trade in child-slaves from northern to southern Ghana grew after the passage of an anti-slave Ordinance in 1874. This paper examines the paradox of post-abolition child- slave trading in the Ghana. It explains the increasing availability of children in the north-south slave marketing network, child trafficking strategies and women‟s role in these, and the factors which sustained both demand and supply. Its main argument is that the entry of foreign slave raiders in northern Ghana created a supply mechanism which invigorated a north-south trade and that this mechanism was kept vibrant by an increasing demand in the south for child slaves in the face of the relative scarcity of adult captives
{"title":"Post-emancipation slave commerce: increasing child slave trafficking and women's agency in late nineteenth-century Ghana","authors":"K. Adu-Boahen","doi":"10.4314/LHR.V9I1.48062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LHR.V9I1.48062","url":null,"abstract":"Victims of all slave trading systems in Africa always included significant numbers of children, but, until the nineteenth century, these formed smaller proportions of total volumes of trade slaves. Following abolition, however, the age/sex ratio of trade slaves began to shift as slave trading in children increased. Child-slave trading assumed a more expansive dimension when later in the nineteenth century European colonial powers, as a strategy for interfering and destroying indigenous slavery in their colonies, outlawed and criminalized slave trading. In Ghana a brisk trade in child-slaves from northern to southern Ghana grew after the passage of an anti-slave Ordinance in 1874. This paper examines the paradox of post-abolition child- slave trading in the Ghana. It explains the increasing availability of children in the north-south slave marketing network, child trafficking strategies and women‟s role in these, and the factors which sustained both demand and supply. Its main argument is that the entry of foreign slave raiders in northern Ghana created a supply mechanism which invigorated a north-south trade and that this mechanism was kept vibrant by an increasing demand in the south for child slaves in the face of the relative scarcity of adult captives","PeriodicalId":339050,"journal":{"name":"Lagos Historical Review","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134223728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the nexus between matrimony, matriarchy and inheritance in Afenmailand using a comparative paradigm of traditional and Islamic perspectives. It examines factors that shaped systems of inheritance and succession among Afenmai people and emphasizes the role of polygamy in the decision-making process. It also highlights the inherent weaknesses in the two systems. By exploring related conceptual and definitional issues involved in inheritance, the article points out the difference between the traditional system of inheritance and that based on Islam, and concludes on the note that local peculiarities have affected both systems of inheritance in Afenmailand since the 1860s. It argues the case for an equitable sharing system that would consider the interest of all relevant stakeholders in the estate of the deceased instead of the current matriarchal primogeniture that excludes the wives of the deceased, the sons other than the first born as well as the daughters.
{"title":"Matriarchal Primogeniture: A Comparative Study of Islamic and Afenmai Systems of Inheritance since the 1860s","authors":"O. Osiki, L. Izuagie","doi":"10.4314/LHR.V9I1.48061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LHR.V9I1.48061","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the nexus between matrimony, matriarchy and inheritance in Afenmailand using a comparative paradigm of traditional and Islamic perspectives. It examines factors that shaped systems of inheritance and succession among Afenmai people and emphasizes the role of polygamy in the decision-making process. It also highlights the inherent weaknesses in the two systems. By exploring related conceptual and definitional issues involved in inheritance, the article points out the difference between the traditional system of inheritance and that based on Islam, and concludes on the note that local peculiarities have affected both systems of inheritance in Afenmailand since the 1860s. It argues the case for an equitable sharing system that would consider the interest of all relevant stakeholders in the estate of the deceased instead of the current matriarchal primogeniture that excludes the wives of the deceased, the sons other than the first born as well as the daughters.","PeriodicalId":339050,"journal":{"name":"Lagos Historical Review","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129268429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is a study of the commercial operation of the Royal Niger Company and John Holt and Company in the West Niger Igbo area from 1886 to 1930. The activities of the companies in the area heralded significant political economic development, the penetration of merchant capital, the development of trade in palm product, and the alteration of the structure of the local economy and the concomitant increase in the “exchange value” component of production. The paper analyzes the economic impact of colonial penetration on production and exchange. It argues that although the penetration of merchant capital into the area provided a “vent for surplus” and therefore was a big fillip for the expansion of production, much of the benefit of expanded production was appropriated by merchant capital and its local agents not only through the unequal terms of trade built into the system, but also through chicanery and deceit. Lagos Historical Review Vol. 8 2008: pp. 1-19
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