This study examines the interaction between growing palm oil export production and changes in Ngwa patterns of food production and family relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It challenges the arguments of both dependency and vent-for-surplus theorists on the dominance of export-sector developments and the importance of changes initiated by Europeans. Local patterns of export growth and capital investment are shown to have been heavily influenced by independent changes in food production methods, gender and inter-generational relationships. Ngwa producers were affected by falling world prices, trading monopolies and colonial taxation. During the Igbo Women's War of 1929, Ngwa women protested vigorously against government interference and falling incomes, but failed to reverse either trend. The subsequent life stories of Ngwa men and women, set against a background of archival and anthropological evidence, provide the essential link between this historical experience and the current national problems of rural-urban drift and moribund export industries.
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"...Susan Martin has written a perceptive study, and a worthy successor to other major writers on the economic history of the eastern areas of Nigeria, from Dike through Jones to Northrup. She is to be congratulated." A.J.H. Latham, International Journal of African Historical Studies
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The Ngwa region lies in the heart of the Nigerian palm belt. Palm oil is one of the oldest foodstuffs of the region and has also been an export crop, produced mainly by women, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. This book describes the rise and fall of the oil palm export industry.
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The dominant themes in rural West African economic history during the past two hundred years are usually held to be the impact of capitalism and colonialism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
palm produce prices, palm produce trade, palm kernel prices, oil palm industry, palm producers, kernel trade, warrant chief system, palm production, kernel exports, yam farming, kernel production, copra exports, palm oil prices, warrant chiefs, palm oil trade, junior men, labour burdens, palm oil production, railway trade, produce inspection, barter terms, transport innovations, native court, palm kernels, court messengers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Port Harcourt, West African, Imo River, Cross River, First World War, Second World War, Agricultural Department, Niger Delta, Women Riot, Eastern Railway, Marketing Board, Native Courts, Southern Nigeria, Ahiaba Native Court, Civil War, Aba Division, Colonial Office, Gold Coast, South-East Asian, Women's War, Miller Brothers, Aba Commission, Owerri Province, World Bank, African Association New!
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palm produce prices, palm produce trade, palm kernel prices, oil palm industry, palm producers, kernel trade, warrant chief system, palm production, kernel exports, yam farming, kernel production, copra exports, palm oil prices, warrant chiefs, palm oil trade, junior men, labour burdens, palm oil production, railway trade, produce inspection, barter terms, transport innovations, native court, palm kernels, court messengers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Port Harcourt, West African, Imo River, Cross River, First World War, Second World War, Agricultural Department, Niger Delta, Women Riot, Eastern Railway, Marketing Board, Native Courts, Southern Nigeria, Ahiaba Native Court, Civil War, Aba Division, Colonial Office, Gold Coast, South-East Asian, Women's War, Miller Brothers, Aba Commission, Owerri Province, World Bank, African Association New!
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- Igbo Village Affairs: Chiefly with Reference to the Village of Umbueke Agbaja (1947) by Margaret M. Green on 6 pages
- Nigeria in the First World War (Ibadan history series) by Akinjide Osuntokun on 5 pages
- African Women by Sylvia Leith-Ross on 5 pages
- The Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) (Tropical Agriculture Series) by C.W.S. Hartley on 5 pages
- Hopkins: An Economic History of West Africa (Paper) by A. G. Hopkins on 5 pages
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- Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century (African Studies) by Martin Lynn on 9 pages
- From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa (African Studies) by Robin Law on 7 pages
- Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960 (African Studies) by Gloria Chuku on 5 pages
- African Market Women and Economic Power: The Role of Women in African Economic Development (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Bessie House-Midamba on 4 pages
- The UP Saga (Nias Monagraph, 94) by Susan M. Martin on page 108, page 224, and Back Matter
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