Description: Farmers And Townspeople in a Changing Nigeria : Abakaliki During Colonial Times 1, Paperback by Ottenberg, Simon, ISBN 978029533X, ISBN-13 9789780295332, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK This volume is a historical and an anthropological account of the old Abakaliki Division in the present Ebonyi State of Nigeria, from pre-British times to colonial contact in 1905 up to Nigerian independence in 1960. It describes the resistance to British conquest, the reluctant adjustments to colonial rule, the growth of the trade in yams and cattle, and later in rice, and the evolution of education and African government and leadership after World War II. Particular attention is given to Abakaliki town as the administrative and economic centre of the division, and to the influx of Igbos from other areas to settle and trade there. The story is one of economic success in Abakaliki Division as a major source of food for Nigeria, and of continued importance of African enterprise throughout the colonial period, in a region of Nigeria which has sometimes incorrectly been considered isolated from, and peripheral to the Igbo nation and to Nigeria.
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Book Title: Farmers And Townspeople in a Changing Nigeria : Abakaliki During
Number of Pages: 396 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Farmers and Townspeople in a Changing Nigeria: Abakaliki During Colonial Times (1905-1960)
Publisher: Spectrum Books LTD ,Nigeria
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: History
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 502 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Simon Ottenburg
Subject Area: Social Work
Item Width: 140 mm
Format: Paperback
