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标题：THE COLONIAL ECONOMY IN THE LOWER NIGER REGION
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作者：Dr. Anthony Danladi Ali KSM
期刊名称：Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review
电子版ISSN：2223-5833
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：7
出版社：Sohar University, Oman and American University of Kuwait
摘要：In this study the Lower Niger refers to the portion of the River Niger which stretches from Lokoja where the River Benue joins the Niger to form a confluence and flows southward to the Atlantic Ocean via a many mouth delta.1The study focuses on the major channel of the Lower Niger which passes through Lokoja, Onitsha. Warri, Sapele, and Burutu where it empties itself into the open sea. In the colonial period the Britishthe Lower Niger via Burutu and Warri ports.2was importantbecause transportation on the Lower Niger River served as a mode for conveying commodities for internal trade and for export. The Lower Niger was the busiest waterway in the West African sub region. The major towns along the Lower Niger River (Lokoja, Idah, Onitsha, Asaba, Warri, Sapele, Burutu and Forcados)3variously served as ferry terminals and as inland river ports or trading stations during the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods. The river ports attracted a good deal of canoe and shipping traffic. Water transportation had contributed tremendously to the growth and development of these major river towns. Trade in Nigerian merchandise such as palm oil, palm kernel, cotton, groundnut, beniseed, shea butter nut and other commodities gave rise to the 'cash crop' economy and was the purpose for British Empire building in Nigeria. However, from 1900 to 1918, the most important export from the Nigerian colony were palm oil and palm kernels which accounted for over 63%4of the total produce exported. The paper also discusses the major entrepreneurs that emerged among the people of the Lower Niger