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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Ondo Road Eastwards of Lagos, 1870-1895 |
Author: | Akintoye, S.A. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 581-598 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | domestic trade history 1800-1899 History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/179900 |
Abstract: | Until 1870 almost all the trade with European merchants along the Guinea Coast was done by the western Yoruba peoples. From For to Novo, Badagry, Lagos trade routes radiated inland. Along the routes, Christian missionary evangelism spread. The eastern Yoruba country remained out of the stream of these formative developments. About 1870 the government of the British colony of Lagos tried to open a new route in the east as a roundabout means of tapping the main centres of trade in the west. This Ondo Road became a great formative force in the lives of the peoples of the eastern Yoruba provinces. The trade on the new route was small but its demands increased productivity both in the agriculture and local manufactures. Also along this route missionaty work at last began to affect the eastern Yoruba areas. Bad effects of the trade were that it led to an increased demand for slaves and produced a chaotic competition among the towns disrupting political and social life. This situation lasted until in 1897 a protectorate was proclaimed over most of the area. Ref., fig. |