Niger Delta

Account for the success by the Niger Delta City state in making a smooth transition to legitimate trade.

The smooth move from illegitimate to legitimate trade by states such as Opobo, Itsikiriland and Calar, better known as Niger…

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Why did the slave trade, from and within East and West Africa, continue into the second half of the nineteenth century?

the difficulty of mounting an effective naval blockade to stop the export of slaves; or the need for cheap slave…

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What was the ‘House System’? Explain, with examples, the origins and importance of the system in the city states of the Niger Delta.

The house states of the Niger Delta in the mid-nineteenth century were essentially companies whose main function was the organisation…