Overview
Describe the nature of commercial relations between Nigeria’s diverse peoples. Access the impact of economic activity on inter-group relations. Identify other types of inter-group relations.
What you'll learn
- Exchange of commodities as a major determinant of inter-group relations.
- Inter-marriages.
- Bilingualism and linguistic borrowings
- Cultural borrowings (Nupe’s egungun taken over by Oyo Yoruba etc).
- Specialisation in crafts and industries and effects on inter-group relations e.g. travelling crafts men plying their trade and settling in different parts of the country.
- Movement of people to centres of specialisations from other areas.
- Trading Associations and groups whose activities cut across lineages and territories e.g. Awka, Aro, Benin, Borno and Hausa land.