Palm Oil and Protest: An Economic History of the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1800–1980

About this book

The dominant themes in rural West African economic history during the past two hundred years are usually held to be the impact of capitalism and colonialism.1 This study began as an attempt to follow convention, in exploring the colonial-period history of a region which was heavily involved in cash cropping. But during the research and writing, the region itself, and the Ngwa people,