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Title: | By Ship or By Camel: The Struggle for the Cameroons Ivory Trade in the Nineteenth Century |
Author: | Johnson, Marion |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 539-549 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kamerun |
Subjects: | ivory mercantile history History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) colonialism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181164 |
Abstract: | Ivory appears to have gone to the Cameroun coast in considerable quantity in the early nineteenth century, while little was being carried across the desert. By the middle of the century this position had been reserved. This paper traces the penetration of Hausa ivory traders to Adamawa and the southern ivory markets, and the subsequent struggle by European firms with posts on the Niger and the Benue to divert the trade back to the sea-borne route. Eventually the Germans in Kamerun had some success in diverting what had become a dwindling trade as the elephants fell victim to modern weapons and to the 'opening up' of the country. Graph, map, notes. |