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Title: | The Ibibio Union and colonial change |
Author: | Nwaka, G. |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | Nigeria Magazine |
Issue: | 146 |
Pages: | 85-94 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Great Britain |
Subjects: | Ibibio colonialism |
Abstract: | This paper considers how the Ibibio and Anang of Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, Eket, Abak, Itu and Opobo Districts of Calabar Province, who formed the Ibibio Union, perceived colonial development as it affected their local government, their economic and social advancement and their position compared to others, in the overall development of Eastern Nigeria. Indirectly, this paper raises two related questions of concepts and method: first, how government policies, past and present, relate to local perceptions of the needs and priorities of development; second, how to ascertain the opinion of a predominantly inarticulate rural peasantry on issues which are not dramatic or controversial enough to attract the traditional sources and indices of public opinion, such as press reports, petitions, plebiscites, reports of inquiry and so on. App., notes, ref. |