Inter-group relations a) Economic activities and Inter-group relations.

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.

Lesson details

Class: SS1
Subject: History
Theme: Pre-Colonial Nigeria I
Duration: 30:12

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.

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Organisation of the slave trade. SS1 · History

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