INDUSTRIAL ADVANCEMENT AND POLICIES IN NIGERIA: A CASE OF THE COLONIAL TEXTILE SCHEME OF 1945-1950

A. T. Ajayi

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A lot of studies have tried to observe, scrutinize and assess the role played by the colonial government during their epoch of colonizing Nigeria. Even though we can’t take away their exploitative intension, it is however pertinent to admit that some of their policies “no matter how little” improve the knowledge and skills of Nigeria’s industrial sector. One of the country’s largest and oldest manufacturing sub-sectors is the Nigerian textile industry. Domestic production and consumption of cotton textiles in Nigeria conversely predated the colonization of the country by Britain. Production and consumption of textiles however, had become so widespread that by the middle of the nineteenth century, Kano (in northern Nigeria) has become the Manchester of West Africa. The textile industry has traveled a long and rugged road – from its pre-colonial cottage orientation, through it colonial struggle with imported textiles, to its current modernity. This paper looks at the effects of the colonial textile development policy on the industrial growth of Nigeria between 1945 and 1950. It however derives its strength from both primary and secondary materials available.

 

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This opportunity was enjoyed mostly by the ex-servicemen who formed a clique of the ex-trainees

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