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| Title: | Progressive unions and development in O'kunland, 1900-1950 |
| Author: | Ekundayo, A.T. |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Periodical: | Lagos Historical Review (ISSN 1596-5031) |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Pages: | 101-119 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | development colonial administration elite associations 1900-1949 |
| Abstract: | The development process in O'kunland, Nigeria, like in any other society, has been complex and problematic. Problematic, in the sense that new forces impinged on the society making local communities unable to determine their own destiny. Prominent among these forces were the British whose mode of operation and pattern of development entailed the restructuring of the existing socio-economic and political order for their own administrative convenience and economic exploitation. In the new colonial environment, there emerged a generation of young elite who, by the middle of the 1930s, would not just accept at face value colonial policies and actions. Interested in the development of their area, this elite formed different progressive associations to actualize their aspirations. Though without much physical impact, they helped to focus attention on burning local issues, coordinated and articulated reactions against colonial policies in O'kunland. This paper discusses colonial socio-economic superstructure and the role of the emergent elite in responding to various communal challenges. It also focuses on the moves by unions, such as the Mopa Youth Patriotic Union (MYPU), the Yagba Progressive Union (YPU), and the Egbe Progressive Union (EPU), to forestall socio-economic backwardness. Notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |