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Title: | Lebanese Traders in Southwestern Nigeria, 1900-1960 |
Author: | Falola, Toyin |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 89 |
Issue: | 357 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 523-553 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | immigrants Lebanese mercantile history History and Exploration Economics and Trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/722173 |
Abstract: | This article is concerned with the dominant features of Lebanese commercial activities in southwestern Nigeria between 1900 and 1960. During the colonial period the region was noted for its large population and high level of production and distribution. Indigenous and foreign traders were involved in the distribution of such commodities as cocoa, kola, palm oil, rubber and copra. On the basis of information drawn from archival documents compiled by colonial officials and from contemporary newspapers, the article examines the migration of Lebanese to Nigeria since the late 19th century, the development and organization of their commercial activities, the profits they made and what they did with their money, competition from European traders, the government, among Lebanese themselves, and from indigenous traders, the extent to which indigenous traders united among themselves and with the political elite to minimize the impact of the Lebanese, the mediation of the colonial administration, and Lebanese survival strategies. Notes, ref. |