Aspects of Palm Oil Trade at Oguta (Eastern Nigeria), 1900-1950

Ekechi, Felix K.

doi:10.2307/3601294

Cited by 37 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Part of the Igbo commercial historiography has focused on the transition from the slave trade to the export trade in palm oil and kernels during the colonial period. It also covers the nature of the colonial export–import trade and the organization of internal and regional trade in palm produce, foodstuffs, and imported goods; indigenous capital formation, the trust system, and the banking sector; and the impact of foreign trade on the Igbo and their society, including the contradictory effects on Igbo business elite (Chuku, , , ; Njoku, ; Martin, ; Nwabughuogu, , ; Amadi, ; Ekechi, ; Njoku, ; Nwaka, ; Northrup, ; Ofonagoro, ; Ekejiuba, ). Igbo commercial activities since independence have not received any serious attention by historians (Brautigam, , ; Egboh, ; Meagher, ; Olutayo, ; Silverstein, ).…”

Section: Economic Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Igbo historiography: Part II

Chuku

2018

History Compass

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Igbo historiography has advanced since the publication of the epic narrative of Olaudah Equiano in 1789 and its different versions, especially that of Paul Edwards, a British literary historian in 1969. The main objective of this essay is to demonstrate the vitality and diversity of Igbo historical studies and provide informative and thoughtful interpretations of its strengths and weaknesses. In three parts, the essay examines the origin, dispersal, and settlement of the people; sociopolitical institutions and organization; economic systems, including slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and the colonial economy; Igbo religion, Islam, Christianity, and Western education; colonial encounter; the Igbo in precolonial and modern Nigeria with focus on intergroup relations, ethnicity, and the Nigeria-Biafra War;and Igbo intellectual history. The essay makes a spirited critique of areas of overemphasis and the conceptual and methodological issues. It suggests important neglected themes that require further historical investigations. Its primary goal is to nudge Igbo historiography in new and challenging directions and inspire historians interested in Igbo studies to adopt a historiographical approach that emphasizes currency, relevance, and usability.

show abstract

Section: Economic Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Igbo historiography: Part II

Chuku

2018

History Compass

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Colonialism had contradictory effects on Igbo socioeconomic organization and gender relations. Chuku (, , , , , ); Ejikeme (); Korieh (, ); Achebe (); Ekechi (, ); Martin (, ); Isichei (); Ekejiuba (); and others have systematically analyzed the ambivalent consequences of colonialism on the Igbo economic and social development at the grass roots, emphasizing how the people coped with global and local trading conditions, new technologies, and other innovations introduced to their economic system as food and export crop producers and why and how some of them moved into new non‐farm occupations. Korieh and Martin shed light on the problems of poverty and agrarian change in Igbo area.…”

Section: Colonial Encountermentioning

confidence: 99%

Igbo historiography:PartIII

Chuku

2018

History Compass

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Igbo historiography has advanced since the publication of the epic narrative of Olaudah Equiano in 1789 and its different versions, especially that of Paul Edwards, a British literary historian in 1969. The main objective of this essay is to demonstrate the vitality and diversity of Igbo historical studies and provide informative and thoughtful interpretations of its strengths and weaknesses. In three parts, the essay examines the origin, dispersal, and settlement of the people; sociopolitical institutions and organization; economic systems, including slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and the colonial economy; Igbo religion, Islam, Christianity, and Western education; colonial encounter; the Igbo in precolonial and modern Nigeria with focus on intergroup relations, ethnicity, and the Nigeria-Biafra War; and Igbo intellectual history. The essay makes a spirited critique of areas of overemphasis and the conceptual and methodological issues. It suggests important neglected themes that require further historical investigations. Its primary goal is to nudge Igbo historiography in new and challenging directions and inspire historians interested in Igbo studies to adopt a historiographical approach that emphasizes currency, relevance, and usability.

show abstract

“…Colonial states allocated land concessions to trading companies for exploitation of natural resources. Each of those concessions divided its territory into small worker settlements around a trading station staffed by Europeans and policed by African militias (Ekechi 1981).…”

Section: Compulsory Labor Cultivation Of Export Cropsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In their agricultural off-season, some peasants organized small trade caravans that used the cover of moving European export goods to transport illicit indigenous commodities to distant markets (Swindell 1992: 140). Igbo women continued to act as middle-traders of palm oil (Ekechi 1981;Chuku 1995). These informal sector activities persisted because they served the needs of both blacks and whites.…”

Section: Debt Bondage and Indentured Servitudementioning

confidence: 99%

Nonwaged peasants in the modern world-system: African households as dialectical units of capitalist exploitation and indigenous resistance, 1890-1930

Dunaway

2010

Journal of Philosophical Economics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Colonialism did not transform African peasants into waged labor. A majority of peasants worked as forced laborers, often unpaid, and they returned to their agricultural household labor as soon as they completed work assignments mandated by the colonizers. Colonial Africans resided in mixed livelihood households in which nonwaged labor forms (both free and unfree) predominated, and very few became dependent on wages. For a majority of colonial Africans, informal sector activities, tenancy, sharecropping, and subsistence production on communal plots were not temporary nonwaged forms on an inevitable path toward proletarianization. Wage earning was not the primary mechanism through which these households were integrated into the modern world-system. Instead, these households primarily provided nonwaged labors to capitalist commodity chains that, in turn, extracted surpluses from them and externalized costs of production to them.

show abstract

Aspects of Palm Oil Trade at Oguta (Eastern Nigeria), 1900-1950

Cited by 37 publications

References 0 publications

Igbo historiography: Part II

Igbo historiography: Part II

Igbo historiography:PartIII

Nonwaged peasants in the modern world-system: African households as dialectical units of capitalist exploitation and indigenous resistance, 1890-1930

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About