"Rubber will not keep in this country": Failed development in Benin, 1897-1921.
Although Nigeria’s Benin region was a major rubber producer in 1960, the industry developed slowly. The colonial government encouraged rubber production from 1897 until 1921, when it abandoned the industry as a failure. I explain why rubber did not take hold in this period. The government was unable...
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"Rubber will not keep in this country": failed development in Benin, 1897-1921
Published 2012
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