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Cocoa Marketing Board and the Sustainable Cocoa Economy in Colonial Nigeria

OLISA GODSON MUOJAMA
African Economic History, January 2020, 47 (1) 1-31; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.47.1.1
OLISA GODSON MUOJAMA
Olisa G. Muojama () is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and a Laureate of the Democratic Governance Institute of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). He is the author of The Nigerian Cocoa Industry and the International Economy in the 1930s: A World-Systems Approach (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). He co-edited The Dynamics of Inter-group Relations in Nigeria since 1960 (2012). He has also published works in specialist journals, including Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, Global Journal of Human-Social Sciences-A, and International Journal of Arts and Humanities, among others.
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The Nigeria Cocoa Marketing Board was a post-war arrangement aimed at continuing the war-time control on cocoa trade in West Africa. Besides trade arrangements, the Board got involved in the improvement and sustainability of the cocoa industry in Nigeria. This point has either been missed out or mentioned only in passing by the hitherto existing literature on the subject. This is due to the concentration by scholars on the discussion of price stabilization and fiscal roles of the board, which in turn is due partly to the dominance of economists in the analysis of the subject. This study seeks to fill this knowledge gap by examining the contributions of the Nigeria Cocoa Marketing board to the development and sustainability of the cocoa economy in colonial Nigeria. The board intervened in the areas of disease control, cocoa and soil survey, rehabilitation of infected areas, quality assurance, and research into the economy of cocoa industry. Archival sources provided data for this analysis. It is a contribution to knowledge in the areas of the colonial economy, marketing boards, and the cocoa industry.

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