OzikoroBeyond the Slave Trade: The Aro Confederacy’s Adaptive Commerce and Colonial Misinterpretations
“The first Europeans to visit Arochukwu, in 1901, noted with some surprise — since it contradicted what they had been led to expect by their superiors — that the Aro trade in factory goods was no less than their trade in slaves, and that in fact Palm oil seems to be the main export. [W.J.…