Trade Winds on the Niger: Saga of the Royal Niger Company, 1830-1971

by Geoff Baker

This tale starts in 1830 on the West Coast of Africa during the latter days of the slave trade when ""palm oil ruffians"" began trading in the swamps of the Niger delta, bartering their coloured beads and cases of gin for the golden oil and ivory which, if they did not die first from black water fever, malaria or dysentery, would make them rich.

This book is about their struggles in the area now known as Nigeria that led to the formation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860640141
• ISBN13: 9781860640148
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Radcliffe Press
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 8.7"