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Title:Calico Caravans: The Tripoli-Kano Trade after 1880
Author:Johnson, Marion
Year:1976
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:17
Issue:1
Pages:95-117
Language:English
Geographic terms:Libya
Northern Nigeria
Subjects:long-distance trade
History and Exploration
Economics and Trade
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/180941
Abstract:This paper traces the caravan trade between Tripoli and Kano for the 30 years after 1881, when the main import into Hausaland was low-value unbleached and bleached calico from Manchester. It refutes the common sense view that only luxury goods and their like could be imported by so expensive a route as that across the desert. Sections: diverting the desert trade - cloth to Kano - feathers, ivory and goatskins - the merchants and the caravans - the survival of the caravans. Figs., maps, notes, tables.
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