The smooth move from illegitimate to legitimate trade by states such as Opobo, Itsikiriland and Calar, better known as Niger Delta City states owes multiple factors. The factors behind include but are not limited to; presence of technocratic leadership, accessibility, availability of favourable climatic conditions and rich soils. This paper seeks to give the reasons behind the success of the Niger Delta states in making a smooth transition to legitimate trade.
Legitimate trade refers to an acceptable, just and a legal trade which involved the buying and selling of goods, products and commodities between African states and European countries as well as American states.
Slave trade in West Africa refers to the manipulative as well as exploitative buying and selling of able-bodied men from West African states such as Dahomey to European countries like Portugal. Slave trade was abolished in 1830, following the passing of the Anti-slavery Act by Britain. There were a plethora of reasons why slave trade […]
Reasons for the abolition of slave trade
15 reasons for the Atlantic slave trade – Why it started
The house states of the Niger Delta in the mid-nineteenth century were essentially companies whose main function was the organisation and promotion of trade.
Much is known about enslaved Africans once they arrived in the Americas and Europe, but in this episode Zeinab Badawi looks at the impact on Africa itself of one of the most evil chapters in human history: the trans Atlantic slave trade. She travels to several countries to see how, where and why this trade began in Cabo Verde in 1510. She meets a man on the Senegalese island of Goree who for 35 years has been relating the story of slavery to thousands of visitors. And leading academics tackle the controversial subject of why some Africans helped sell their fellow Africans into slavery.
This is a short history of Africa excluding Egypt, Ethiopia and (Dutch and British)
South Africa, which are the subjects of separate histories. Some of the history of
these countries, however, is naturally mentioned in this history of the rest of Africa –
but is kept to the minimum needed to make the rest comprehensible.
In the late 18th century, public opinion towards the slave trade began to change, thanks to Abolitionists such as William Wilberforce. In 1807 Parliament finally ended British involvement.
The position that slave trade was a necessary evil to the Africans lacks sound argument. Slave trade refers to the manipulative as well as exploitative buying and selling of able-bodied men from the African continent to Europe and the Americas. On one hand, slave trade led to the modernization of Africa as well as introduction of foreign goods on the African continent.
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