| Abstract: | This article deals with the economic system of the precolonial societies of southeastern Nigeria, in particular with their production and distribution activities. It pays attention to agricultural production, land rights and land use. main crops. the mobilization of labour, slavery. wage labour, manufacturing, the ritual control of productive activities, quality control, and distributive mechanisms (reciprocity, local and regional trade, currency system). The author argues that the economic system of precolonial societies in southeastern Nigeria was not strictly a subsistence system; profitability was not an alien concept and production for exchange was common. Notes, ref. |
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