"LANDLORDS OF ONITSHA": URBAN LAND, ACCUMULATION, AND DEBATES OVER CUSTOM IN COLONIAL EASTERN NIGERIA, ca. 1880-1945*

From: The International Journal of African Historical Studies | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Mbajekwe, Patrick | Copyright information

Many scholars have explored how property, particularly urban land and housing, became a resource for economic accumulation for some Africans during the colonial period.1 The penetration of international commerce and the imposition of colonial rule led to commercialization of land in many parts of Africa. This made land, especially urban land, a valuable new source of wealth-a development that unleashed enormous struggles among Africans for its control. Struggles for the control of land were, ...

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