Titlebook: Political Organization in Nigeria since the Late Stone Age; A History of the Igb John N. Oriji Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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Igboland Before and During the Iron Age: From Stateless Societies to Mini States,ly facilitated by “elephant paths.” Although the tradition of Aba town, for example, deals with a later period, it claims that the progenitors of the town, from northern Ngwaland, used elephant paths to migrate and settle near the Aza River. Hence, Aba is popularly called “enyi mba” (lit. the elephant town)..

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Introduction,-Atlantic slave trade. The existing works deal primarily with the modern period, for which documents exist. Many of them, especially those authored by synchronists, are limited in historical depth. Hence, they create the misleading impression that the Igbo have lived in a stateless and static societ

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The Igbo and the Benin, Igala, and Ijo Mega States During the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,roup relations between the different ethnic nationalities. Using the Edo (Bini), Igala, and Eastern Ijo mega states as examples, this chapter hopes to shed more light on the theories of state formation and explore how the encounter between each of these mega states and their Igbo neighbors impacted

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The Aro Trade Network: Changes in Igbo Society During the Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries,y since the colonial period.. This development is not surprising because British colonial officers documented much information on the Aro, whose “high command,” they reasoned, constituted the major obstacle to their policy of “free trade” and the colonization of the Biafran hinterland.. In addition,

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Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Geneses of Legitimate Commerce, Christianity, and the New Imperialism, and the “New Imperialism.” Historians are, however, contesting the historical linkages between the various themes and their impact on African societies. This chapter hopes to enrich the debate, showing how legitimate commerce and colonialism changed Igbo history before the Aro Expedition (1901–1902

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Developments in Igboland from the 1890s to the 1970s,02), when the colonial frontier expanded to encompass entire southeastern Nigeria. This chapter is divided into three major periods, which will show how the three arms of British imperialism and their local agents affected Igbo history since annexation. The first period (1890s–1918) deals with the e