African Middlemen

Sir Mathias Ugochukwu: A Post-Independence Nigerian Industrialist and Entrepreneurial Pioneer

Where the historical record is thin or debated, Sir Mathias Ugochukwu occupies a notable place in Nigeria’s post-independence economic history as one of the early indigenous businessmen who expanded African participation in large-scale commerce and industry. Emerging during a period when economic power was still largely dominated by expatriate firms, Ugochukwu represented a generation…