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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