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Title: | The producer in the palm oil export of South-Eastern Nigeria in the era of 'legitimate commerce' |
Author: | Njoku, O.N. |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 63-76 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | farmers palm kernels mercantile history |
Abstract: | By the 1840s, when the export of slaves from south-eastern Nigeria had ceased, palm produce emerged as the dominant export of the region. The problems posed by the transition from the old trade to the new and the strategies by which the problems were tackled have attracted considerable attention in the literature - as far as they affected the European supercargoes and firms and the African coastal middlemen of the Niger Delta and Old Calabar. No attention has been paid to the farmers who did the primary production and without whose sweat the orchestrated 'achievements' of the Europeans and the African middlemen on the coast would have been impossible. It does not appear from the literature that sufficient efforts are being made to investigate the strategies by which the indigenous farmers were able to effect the massive production of exports. This is the issue that the paper explores with focus on the adaptations and innovations which the producers made to increase production. - Notes. |