Publisher's Synopsis
With a new introduction by John C. McCall This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts reproduced are significant yet often neglected, and have stood the test of time. This text, originally published in 1963, is an account of the rise of the slave and palm oil trading states in the Niger delta in the 18th and 19th centuries. New edition publishedin association with the International African Institute North America: Transaction Books; Germany Lit Verlag
