An Economic History of Land, Labour, and Capital as Factors of Production in Pre-Colonial Anioma Society
An Economic History of Land, Labour, and Capital as Factors of Production in Pre-Colonial Anioma Society By Emeka Esogbue Anioma is blessed with a geographical environment that favours agricultural growth which helped to promote interaction among the communities that form the region. It was as a result of this development that they fed on the ecological advantages of the area. Like in other West African societies, a good number of food crops were introduced to the area which was wild until they were domesticated for safe consumption. However, it is not to be claimed in this article that any such domestication occurred within the Aniomaland since it took place long before the iron age, at the period, no one will verifiably claim that Anioma communities were in existence. What is of importance to this historical article is that since agriculture thrived, the people interacted and there was traffic on the land and waters. In the pre-colonial history of the Anioma people, ...