Palm Oil and Protest

An Economic History of the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1800 1980

By: Susan M. Martin, David Anderson (Editor), Carolyn Brown (Editor)

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This study examines the interaction between growing palm oil export production and changes in Ngwa patterns of food production and family relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It challenges the arguments of both dependency and vent-for-surplus theorists on the dominance of export-sector developments and the importance of changes initiated by Europeans. Local patterns of export growth and capital investment are shown to have been heavily influenced by independent changes in food production methods, gender and inter-generational relationships. Ngwa producers were affected by falling world prices, trading monopolies and colonial taxation. During the Igbo Women's War of 1929, Ngwa women protested vigorously against government interference and falling incomes, but failed to reverse either trend. The subsequent life stories of Ngwa men and women, set against a background of archival and anthropological evidence, provide the essential link between this historical experience and the current national problems of rural-urban drift and moribund export industries.

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"...Susan Martin has written a perceptive study, and a worthy successor to other major writers on the economic history of the eastern areas of Nigeria, from Dike through Jones to Northrup. She is to be congratulated." A.J.H. Latham, International Journal of African Historical Studies

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Published: 9th May 1988

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List of maps and figure
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Ecology, society and economic change to 1891
The Ngwa and colonial rule, 1891-1914
The expansion of the oil palm industry, 1884-1914
The end of the boom
Cassava and Christianity
Authority, justice and property rights
Trade, credit and mobility
Production and protest: the Women Riot, 1929
Cash cropping and economic change, 1930-80
Conclusion
Statistical appendix
Notes
Interviews conducted in the Ngwa region, 1980-1
Bibliography
Index
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Palm Oil and Protest

An Economic History of the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1800 1980

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