dc.contributor.author	Korieh, Chima J.	eng
dc.date.accessioned	2010-11-02T19:12:53Z
dc.date.available	2010-11-02T19:12:53Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description	Issued also in print format.
dc.description	Series: Africa, missing voices series 6	eng
dc.description.abstract	A century ago, agriculture was the dominant economic sector in much of Africa. By the 1990s, however, African farmers had declining incomes and were worse off, on average, than those who did not farm. Colonial policies, subsequent 'top-down' statism, and globalization are usually cited as primary causes of this long-term decline. In this unprecedented study of the Igbo region of southeastern Nigeria, Chima Korieh points the way to a more complex and inclusive approach to this issue. Using agricultural change as a lens through which to view socio-economic and cultural change, political struggle, and colonial hegemony, Korieh shows that regional dynamics and local responses also played vital roles in this era of transformation. British attempts to modernize the densely populated Igbo region were focused largely on intensive production of palm oil as a cash crop for export and on the assumption of male dominance within a conventional western hierarchy. This colonial agenda, however, collided with a traditional culture in which females played important social and political roles and male status was closely tied to yam cultivation. Drawing on an astonishing array of sources, including oral interviews, newspapers, private journals, and especially letters of petition from local farmers and traders, Korieh puts the reader in direct contact with ordinary people, evoking a feeling of what it was like to live through the era. As such, The Land Has Changed reveals colonial interactions as negotiated encounters between officials and natives and challenges simplistic notions of a hegemonic colonial state and a compliant native population.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Chima J. Korieh. "The land has changed: history, society and gender in colonial Eastern Nigeria". Series: Africa, missing voices series 6, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2010.	eng
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34579
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55238-268-4
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/48254
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	eng
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	eng
dc.rights	Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/	*
dc.subject	Igbo (African people)–Agriculture–Nigeria, Eastern–History	eng
dc.subject	Agriculture–Nigeria, Eastern–History	eng
dc.subject	Agriculture–Social aspects–Nigeria, Eastern–History	eng
dc.subject	Agriculture and state–Nigeria, Eastern–History	eng
dc.subject	Igbo (African people)–Nigeria, Eastern–Social conditions	eng
dc.subject	Women, Igbo–Nigeria, Eastern–Social conditions	eng
dc.subject	Igbo (African people)–Nigeria, Eastern–History	eng
dc.subject	Great Britain–Colonies–Nigeria	eng
dc.title	The land has changed: history, society and gender in colonial Eastern Nigeria	eng
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