A Olukoju
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 40402 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Olukoju |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Olukoju |
| FIRMA | OLUKOJU A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Lagos |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1667-0469 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Crises and Adaptation
The Most Important Commercial Body Within the Empire
Creating ‘an air sense
This paper focuses on the neglected subject of the beginnings of civil aviation in Nigeria in the aftermath of World War I. Until now, the literature on civil aviation in British colonial Africa had focused largely on Kenya, Central and South Africa and on post-World War II West Africa. This paper, relying on previously unexploited archival material, examines policy debates and options considered by the Colonial Office, the Air Ministry and the N…
An Imperial Clearing House for Commercial Information and Suggestions
This paper departs from the preoccupation in the literature with the pressure group activity of single chambers of commerce by examining an influential but previously neglected federated business pressure group, the British Imperial Council of Commerce (BICC). Set within interlocking dynamics of British Imperial and global history and the clamour for imperial preference, it focuses on BICC's interface with the British government and its overseas …
Officials, Commercial Interests, and Civil Aviation Policy Initiatives in Inter-War British West Africa
Relying on previously unexploited archival material, this article examines civil aviation policy initiatives and debates among various stakeholders in London and West Africa—the Colonial Office, the Air Ministry, colonial governments, and civil aviation stakeholders, notably, Sir Alan Cobham and Sir Sefton Brancker, in the inter-war period. The study is situated in the interwoven contexts of the change in use of aircraft from combat to recreation…
Littoral Piracy in Colonial Nigeria
The antiquity of piracy in Nigeria's coastal waters has been traced to the precolonial period, especially the nineteenth century. However, the period of British colonial rule, specifically, the interwar years, has been neglected in the literature. This paper examines piracy on the Lagos Lagoon during the interwar years in the framework of concurrent concepts of piracy. It contributes to the literature on piracy by reclassifying piratical acts in …
Abolition, Legitimate Commerce, and Christianity in Nigeria
The history of Nigeria in the nineteenth century was dominated by the collapse of Old Oyo, the rise of the Sokoto Caliphate in the north and Ibadan in the southwest, the abolition of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST), the institution of legitimate commerce in forest produce, Christian missionary evangelization, and the beginnings of British colonialism. This essay examines how three conjoined events—the Abolition, legitimate commerce, and Chr…
Maritime Policy and Economic Development
It is now generally recognized that the maritime sector could, if properly harnessed, play a critical role in the development of regional, national and global economies. This is in view of the growth-pole potentials of ports and ancillary industries. Although a comparison of Japan, a leading global power, and Nigeria, a vastly underachieving African country, might sound far-fetched, the effort is rewarding, as shown in this article, for its impli…
Actors and Institutions in Urban Politics in Nigeria
Unlike Lagos Island and Mushin, for example, Agege, a multi-ethnic and densely populated ward of metropolitan Lagos (originally an autonomous settlement, has suffered relative neglect in the extensive literature on Lagos. This article analyses the dynamics of power relations among the various interest groups, personalities and institutions in this ‘ward’ of Lagos since the 1950s. Combining chronological and thematic approaches, it outlines the ev…
Getting Too Great A Grip’
With only one natural seaport on the West African coastline, shipping in the region during the colonial period was dependent upon the use of lighters to feed ocean-going vessels. However, lighterage services were monopolised by the leading expatriate shipping lines which constituted the West African shipping Conference or cartel. This essay examines the reaction of the British government when an American tramp shipper challenged the cartel on the…
Minutes and the Man
Archival sources, especially correspondence between officials, have been critical to the reconstruction of the history of colonial territories. Minutes, confidential comments that informed the decisions transmitted in official correspondence (known as dispatches), though important, are often neglected. This paper highlights the value of minutes and demonstrates their optimal utilization through the lens of the career of J.E.W. Flood, a prolific m…
Making Sense of the Yoruba Littoral
This article examines the Yoruba coast in its local and global settings. Drawing on the work by Michael Pearson, the article argues that the Yoruba littoral is by no means a monolithic community in cultural, religious and economic terms. It points out that while most Yoruba define themselves in relation to fixed settlements in the hinterland, the littoral is defined by high mobility and flexibility that stretch far beyond the boundaries associate…
Afterword
“The service had to come first”
This paper demonstrates how the domination of subject peoples by the imperial and colonial governments was extended to the private domain of marriage and the family life of officials. This was undertaken by means of restrictive and intrusive civil service rules, which governed the rates of ocean passages payable to colonial officers’ wives, and the conditions under which officers could go on leave, and be accompanied by their wives and children a…
At the Crossroads
Rebecca Jones’ At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English evokes my early encounter with Yoruba fiction, especially that by D. O. Fagunwa and J. F. Odunjo
African seaports and development in historical perspective
This article presents a long-term explanation of port evolution in Africa. It focuses on the economic, political and social characteristics that influenced the development of maritime infrastructures and their interaction with inland transport systems. This article demonstrates how seaport evolution in Africa has been heavily affected by path-dependence patterns. In addition, this study provides evidence of the insertion of the African economy in…
The Pressure Group Activity of Federated Chambers of Commerce
Existing studies of business pressure group activity have examined individual chambers of commerce. This article considers the neglected theme of federated metropolitan chambers of commerce in the British Empire with a case study of an important business pressure group—the Joint West Africa Committee (JWAC) of the Liverpool, Manchester, and London Chambers of Commerce. It highlights, on the one hand, the tension between colonial officials and mer…
Filthy rich" and "dirt poor
This paper analyses how household solid waste was perceived and handled in traditional Yoruba and contemporary Lagos society in South West Nigeria. It highlights the roles of individuals, households, changing lifestyles and diet, business cycles, residential segregation, and state and non-state actors and institutions in waste management in Lagos. The filthy rich/dirt poor divide in Lagos is epitomised by spatial segregation and social stratifica…
Accumulation and Conspicuous Consumption
The failure to develop a concept of business as an impersonal and long-term occupation helps to explain why, in spite of its many attributes, the African business community in Lagos was unable to produce a capitalist class capable of competing successfully with expatriate firms. (Hopkins 1964, 444) Introduction The underdevelopment of West African entrepreneurship, epitomized by the near-total absence of an indigenous capitalist class, alluded to…
The Port of Lagos, 1850â 1929
The Port of Lagos, 1850–1929
A common feature of the West African coastline is the limited number of natural harbours because of the lack of major indentations. This contrasts sharply with the coastlines of Western Europe and Japan, for example. Hence, only Dakar and Freetown have ‘good natural harbours’ (White, 1970, 14). Consequently, port development in the region has involved extensive engineering works to create or expand port facilities. This chapter details the develo…
Economic Relations between Nigeria and the United States in the Era of British Colonial Rule, ca. 1900–1950
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The United Kingdom and the political economy of the global oils and fats business during the 1930s
This article examines an aspect of the globalization of commodity production, exchange, and consumption in the interwar years: the differential impact of protectionism on primary producers in the context of the Great Depression. Focusing on West African oilseeds, especially Nigerian palm produce, it highlights the dilemma of imperial Britain in the synchronic interplay of forces that operated in the north and south, and globally in the two-dimens…
Economic Relations between Nigeria and the United States in the Era of British Colonial Rule, ca. 1900–1950
Precolonial Nigeria
This is the third festschrift in honour of the distinguished Africanist and historian, Toyin Falola. It complements earlier volumes, edited by Adebayo Oyebade, which focused on the colonial and post-independence periods of Nigerian history. Precolonial Nigeria contains 25 chapters arranged in five sections. The introductory section, comprising the first two chapters, is written by the editor; it contextualizes the entire volume and Falola's speci…
Elder Dempster and the Shipping Trade of Nigeria during the First World War
Shipping, a vital element of maritime trade, has not hitherto received adequate attention in studies on Nigerian colonial economic history. This article therefore fills a gap in the literature by studying aspects of the shipping trade during the First World War, when shipping was indispensable for maintaining economic links between Britain and her colonies. Shipping in Nigeria revolved around the practices of the Elder Dempster Shipping Company, …
Prohibition and Paternalism
Ayodeji Olukoju, Prohibition and Paternalism: The State and the Clandestine Liquor Traffic in Northern Nigeria, c. 1898-1918, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1991), pp. 349-368
The United Kingdom and the political economy of the global oils and fats business during the 1930s
This article examines an aspect of the globalization of commodity production, exchange, and consumption in the interwar years: the differential impact of protectionism on primary producers in the context of the Great Depression. Focusing on West African oilseeds, especially Nigerian palm produce, it highlights the dilemma of imperial Britain in the synchronic interplay of forces that operated in the north and south, and globally in the two-dimens…
Buy British, Sell Foreign
Ayodeji Olukoju, "Buy British, Sell Foreign": External Trade Control Policies in Nigeria during World War II and Its Aftermath, 1939-1950, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2/3 (2002), pp. 363-384
Race and access to liquor
Never Expect Power Always
The supply of electricity, undoubtedly the key energy source for industrial, commercial and domestic activity in the modern world, falls far short of demand in many developing countries. In Nigeria, state monopoly has compounded rather than resolved the energy crisis. The National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), established by decree in 1972, epitomizes the utter failure of state monopolies in the power sector. This and other state-owned enterpr…
Anatomy of Business-Government Relations
In a review published almost two decades ago, Hopkins (1976, 29) observed that business history had “no following in African Studies.” A decade later, however, the situation had changed remarkably, though the important subject of the relationship between the State and the business community in colonial Africa still required further in-depth analysis based on case studies. Hence, Hopkins (1987, 131) stressed the “need to evaluate the precise balan…
Maritime Trade in Lagos in the Aftermath of the First World War
The Development of the Port of Lagos, c. 1892–1946
Getting Too Great A Grip’
With only one natural seaport on the West African coastline, shipping in the region during the colonial period was dependent upon the use of lighters to feed ocean-going vessels. However, lighterage services were monopolised by the leading expatriate shipping lines which constituted the West African shipping Conference or cartel. This essay examines the reaction of the British government when an American tramp shipper challenged the cartel on the…
A “Truly Nigerian Project?” the Politics of the Establishment of the Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL), 1957–1959
Helping Our Own Shipping’
During the colonial era official passages to Nigeria wee largely reserved to Elder Dempster, despite higher fares and poorer service than the line's foreign rivals. Colonial officials agitated for freedom to choose, with the colonial government sympathetic because it had to meet the higher cost. Some concessions were obtained, but the company faced hard times during two world wars and the intervening depression. This sutdy highlights the firm's n…
A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984
The Travails of Migrant and Wage Labour in the Lagos Metropolitan Area in the Inter-War Years
The Making of An “Expensive Port”
Background to the Establishment of the Nigerian Ports Authority
African seaports and development in historical perspective
This article presents a long-term explanation of port evolution in Africa. It focuses on the economic, political and social characteristics that influenced the development of maritime infrastructures and their interaction with inland transport systems. This article demonstrates how seaport evolution in Africa has been heavily affected by path-dependence patterns. In addition, this study provides evidence of the insertion of the African economy in…
Self-Help Criminality as Resistance
This essay examines the counterfeiting and uttering of British Imperial coinage in interwar Nigeria, and the response of the colonial state. In particular, it establishes a connection between criminality and resistance to European colonialism in Africa. In this regard, it contextualizes the preponderant involvement in the counterfeiting saga of the Ijebu, a subgroup of the Yoruba nationality in southwestern Nigeria. Though other considerations we…
Slamming the ‘Open Door’
Until recently, when it ceased to be an important pastime, scholars engaged in debate over the motives behind, and the nature of, European imperial enterprise in the colonial territories of Africa. Opinion was divided between those who stressed the altruistic goals and the positive impact of the European ‘civilising’ mission in Africa and others who highlighted the ulterior motives behind, and the uncomplimentary features of, colonial rule. One i…
Playing the Second Fiddle
Creating ‘an air sense
This paper focuses on the neglected subject of the beginnings of civil aviation in Nigeria in the aftermath of World War I. Until now, the literature on civil aviation in British colonial Africa had focused largely on Kenya, Central and South Africa and on post-World War II West Africa. This paper, relying on previously unexploited archival material, examines policy debates and options considered by the Colonial Office, the Air Ministry and the N…
Officials, Commercial Interests, and Civil Aviation Policy Initiatives in Inter-War British West Africa
Relying on previously unexploited archival material, this article examines civil aviation policy initiatives and debates among various stakeholders in London and West Africa—the Colonial Office, the Air Ministry, colonial governments, and civil aviation stakeholders, notably, Sir Alan Cobham and Sir Sefton Brancker, in the inter-war period. The study is situated in the interwoven contexts of the change in use of aircraft from combat to recreation…
Oral Traditions and the Political History of Oka-Akoko
A dominant trend in Nigerian historiography since the 1970s has been the preoccupation with writing history “from the national perspective.” This appears to be Nigerian historians' attempts to be “relevant” to current efforts at nation-building. “National history,” the object of such endeavors, has been defined by the frontline historian J. F. Ade Ajayi as “a study of the main developments in the whole Nigerian region, and among all the peoples a…
Prohibition and Paternalism
Ayodeji Olukoju, Prohibition and Paternalism: The State and the Clandestine Liquor Traffic in Northern Nigeria, c. 1898-1918, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1991), pp. 349-368
Maritime Trade in Lagos in the Aftermath of the First World War
The Development of the Port of Lagos, c. 1892–1946
Background to the Establishment of the Nigerian Ports Authority
Elder Dempster and the Shipping Trade of Nigeria during the First World War
Shipping, a vital element of maritime trade, has not hitherto received adequate attention in studies on Nigerian colonial economic history. This article therefore fills a gap in the literature by studying aspects of the shipping trade during the First World War, when shipping was indispensable for maintaining economic links between Britain and her colonies. Shipping in Nigeria revolved around the practices of the Elder Dempster Shipping Company, …
Oral Traditions and the Political History of Oka-Akoko
A dominant trend in Nigerian historiography since the 1970s has been the preoccupation with writing history “from the national perspective.” This appears to be Nigerian historians' attempts to be “relevant” to current efforts at nation-building. “National history,” the object of such endeavors, has been defined by the frontline historian J. F. Ade Ajayi as “a study of the main developments in the whole Nigerian region, and among all the peoples a…
The Making of An “Expensive Port”
Anatomy of Business-Government Relations
In a review published almost two decades ago, Hopkins (1976, 29) observed that business history had “no following in African Studies.” A decade later, however, the situation had changed remarkably, though the important subject of the relationship between the State and the business community in colonial Africa still required further in-depth analysis based on case studies. Hence, Hopkins (1987, 131) stressed the “need to evaluate the precise balan…
Race and access to liquor
Playing the Second Fiddle
The Travails of Migrant and Wage Labour in the Lagos Metropolitan Area in the Inter-War Years
Rotgut and Revenue
Once recommended by A.G. Hopkins as a ‘profitable subject of future research’, the European liquor trade in West Africa has since then received considerable attention from scholars. While Lynn Pan examined the region in a broad survey of the African liquor trade, other scholars have focused on more specific aspects of the topic. To be sure, much of the literature has concentrated on the ideological controversy between the defenders and opponents …
Nigeria's Colonial Government, Commercial Banks and the Currency Crisis of 1916-1920
L'A. analyse la dynamique de transition monetaire et les consequences de la crise monetaire au Nigeria, pendant et immediatement apres la premiere guerre mondiale, suite a l'introduction dans le systeme monetaire colonial de nouvelles formes de monnaies europeennes (argent imperial, monnaie subsidiaire, billets de banque), ainsi que les reactions de la population dans l'arriere-pays de Lagos. Il etudie aussi les consequences sur le fonctionnement…
Government, the Business Community, and Quality Control Schemes in the Agricultural Export Trade of Nigeria, 1889-1929
he development of produce inspection as the thrust of the colonial policy of quality control in Nigeria has received some attention in the literature. For Northern Nigeria, Shenton and Adebayo have, in separate studies, examined colonial economic policy relating specifically to groundnuts, cotton, and hides and skins.2 In the only major study of pre-1936 Southern Nigerian produce inspection, Njoku dealt with the palm produce trade of Southeastern…
Helping Our Own Shipping’
During the colonial era official passages to Nigeria wee largely reserved to Elder Dempster, despite higher fares and poorer service than the line's foreign rivals. Colonial officials agitated for freedom to choose, with the colonial government sympathetic because it had to meet the higher cost. Some concessions were obtained, but the company faced hard times during two world wars and the intervening depression. This sutdy highlights the firm's n…
Slamming the ‘Open Door’
Until recently, when it ceased to be an important pastime, scholars engaged in debate over the motives behind, and the nature of, European imperial enterprise in the colonial territories of Africa. Opinion was divided between those who stressed the altruistic goals and the positive impact of the European ‘civilising’ mission in Africa and others who highlighted the ulterior motives behind, and the uncomplimentary features of, colonial rule. One i…
A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984
Fishing, Migrations and Inter-group Relations in the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Coast of West Africa) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Gulf of Guinea, home to numerous ethnic nationalities, stretches from the Republic of Senegal in the west to Nigeria in the east. There have been population movements and socio-economic interactions within and across the coastal belt over the past millennium. In response to their environment, the people have been engaged in fishing, salt-making, commerce and boat making. Fishing, the pivot of their economy, has taken the leading fishing group…
Self-Help Criminality as Resistance
This essay examines the counterfeiting and uttering of British Imperial coinage in interwar Nigeria, and the response of the colonial state. In particular, it establishes a connection between criminality and resistance to European colonialism in Africa. In this regard, it contextualizes the preponderant involvement in the counterfeiting saga of the Ijebu, a subgroup of the Yoruba nationality in southwestern Nigeria. Though other considerations we…
Buy British, Sell Foreign
Ayodeji Olukoju, "Buy British, Sell Foreign": External Trade Control Policies in Nigeria during World War II and Its Aftermath, 1939-1950, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2/3 (2002), pp. 363-384
A “Truly Nigerian Project?” the Politics of the Establishment of the Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL), 1957–1959
Ports as Growth Poles
Never Expect Power Always
The supply of electricity, undoubtedly the key energy source for industrial, commercial and domestic activity in the modern world, falls far short of demand in many developing countries. In Nigeria, state monopoly has compounded rather than resolved the energy crisis. The National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), established by decree in 1972, epitomizes the utter failure of state monopolies in the power sector. This and other state-owned enterpr…
Tropical Terminus
Culture and Customs of Liberia
Liberia has a strong connection to the United States in that it was founded by former slaves in 1822. Although Liberia had existed as an independent African nation and a symbol of hope to the African peoples under the rule of various colonial powers, its recent history has been bedeviled by a prolonged upheaval following a military coup d'etat in 1980. In this context, the narrative highlights the distinctiveness of Liberians in their negotiation…
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