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Title: | Taming the Nomads: The Colonial State, the Fulani Pastoralists and the Production of Clarified Butter Fat (C.B.F.) in Nigeria, 1930-1952 |
Author: | Adebayo, Akanmu G. |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | Transafrican Journal of History |
Volume: | 20 |
Pages: | 190-212 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Northern Nigeria West Africa Great Britain |
Subjects: | Fulani pastoralists colonialism nomads dairy industry History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Imperialism, Colonialism imperialism Animal production |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24520310 |
Abstract: | Existing studies give the impression that colonialism exploited only the sedentary peasants who produced the major export crops (cocoa, cotton, coffee, etc.), but ignored the nomadic pastoralists because their products (milk, cheese, butter fat, etc.) were not in great demand in Europe. This article corrects that impression, and, by focusing on the pastoral Fulani of Nigeria, it demonstrates that there was hardly any product or any economic group that escaped the 'long arm' of British colonial exploitation. The case of the production and export of clarified butter fat (CBF) also shows the futility of the British attempt to tame the nomads. The colonial administration's policies to modernize the Nigerian dairy industry and develop its export potential between 1930 and 1950 failed partly because the British had insufficient knowledge of the nomadic mode of production to which the Fulani subscribed, and partly because the nomads rejected the 'mechanized' system of production being grafted onto their culturally-rooted production processes. Notes, ref. |