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Title: | From Wealthy Entrepreneurs to Petty Traders: The Decline of African Middlemen in Eastern Nigeria, 1900-1950 |
Author: | Nwabughuogu, Anthony I. |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 365-379 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | economic history traders History and Exploration Economics and Trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/182101 |
Abstract: | Four phases are identified in the process of the decline of African middleman in Eastern Nigeria from wealthy entrepreneurs of the late 19th century to petty traders after 1930. During the first phase, 1900-5, the middlemen lost only the political control of their trading areas but benefited commercially; the establishment of colonial rule expanded their market. During the second phase, 1906-16, the middlemen's market began to contract and their wealth declined when expatriate firms opened inland trade using a new group of smaller and dependent middlemen. The fortunes of the middlemen worsened during the third phase, 1916-1930, when the development of the infrastructure enabled the expatriate firms to intensify their activities. Produce inspection (1928), the collapse of the trust system (1930), added during the fourth period, 1930-40s, to the downfall of the in the 19th century so wealthy African middlemen. Ref., sum. |