Political organization in Nigeria since the late Stone Age
Subtitle: a history of the Igbo people
By: John N. Oriji
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780230621930
Subjects: Politics and government; Igbo (African people)
Description: "Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is know about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is then a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone since the prehistoric period"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Igboland before and during the Iron Age : from stateless societies to mini states; title: The Igbo and their neighbors before the fifteenth century; title: The Igbo and the Benin, Igala, and Ijo mega states during the trans-Atlantic slave trade; title: The Aro trade network : changes in Igbo society during the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries; title: Abolition of the slave trade and the geneses of legitimate commerce, Christianity, and the new imperialism; title: Developments in Igboland from the 1890s to the 1970s.