OzikoroPalm Oil Monopoly and Igbo Merchants: How the Royal Niger Company Disrupted Traditional Trade Networks in Onitsha and Asaba (1879–1900)
In the late nineteenth century, the lower Niger River became a focal point of European commercial activity and competition. Among the most powerful agents of British economic expansion was the Royal Niger Company (RNC), a British mercantile corporation that parlayed commercial dominance into political power across the Niger and Benue river basins. While legitimate commerce…
Place Asaba