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Title: | The significance of British rawcotton enterprise in the nineteenth century for post-colonial economy in Nigeria |
Author: | Nzemeke, A.D. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Afrika Zamani: revue d'histoire africaine |
Issue: | 10 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 63-82 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | economic history cotton colonialism History and Exploration Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
Abstract: | The questions discussed in the present article concern the role played by cotton as an economic staple in Britain's colonial venture in 'Central Africa' and the potential role that cotton can still play in the economic life of the peoples in the same area now that the colonial period is over. The term 'Central Africa' refers here to the area so labelled by early travellers and explorers, for whom the term had more or less an economic significance, indicating an area which abounded in many tropical products, amongst which raw cotton was very prominent, and which was closely associated with the river Niger, considered the gateway into the interior where such commodities were available in ever larger quantities. Graph, notes, tab. |