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Trade Winds on the Niger - Saga of the Royal Niger Company, 1830-1971 (Hardcover)
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Trade Winds on the Niger - Saga of the Royal Niger Company, 1830-1971 (Hardcover)
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This tale starts in 1830 on the West Coast of Africa during the
latter days of the slave trade when "palm oil ruffians" began
trading in the swamps of the Niger delta, bartering their coloured
beads and cases of gin for the golden oil and ivory which, if they
did not die first from black water fever, malaria or dysentery,
would make them rich.
This book is about their struggles in the area now known as Nigeria
that led to the formation of the Royal Niger Company Chartered and
Limited with its private army in 1886, the takeover of the Company
by Lever Brothers Ltd in 1920 and its amalgamation in 1929 with its
rival, the African and Eastern Trade Co-operation to form the
United Africa Company, which then became the largest trading
organization of its type in West Africa, if not in the world.
Obviously, the old trading methods of Nigeria had to give way
eventually, not only to more modern techniques, but also to the
pressures of national independence, and so the book is finished by
recording the affairs of the latter day agents and managers as they
diversified the Company's activities and restructured its
establishment until by 1971, when the book ends, it had been able
to sell off its large river fleet, which had been for so long the
backbone of its enterprise in Nigeria, but was now redundant, and
yet still remain the leading commercial conglomerate in both
Nigeria and West Africa.
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