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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
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.
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