History of Nigerian Ports Authority

ships had to be unloaded so the freight could be carried overland, towns sprang up where the cargo could be stored and protected, and slipways were constructed so that the ships could be drug over land, so there was no way enemy ships or navies could attack.

In a way it was a precursor to the oncoming storm of the slave trade and its global impact. However it is evident through the letters of Afonso, in this moment, that although Africans were collaborating with the Portuguese in trade that they did not want them to kidnap their nobleman or weakening its currency. Furthermore, the trade relations of the Atlantic Age specifically with the Portuegeuse and the Kongo help us understand the expansion of commercial exchange between West Central Africa and Europeans and give us a glimpse at the long-term and widespread impact it would have in

Kamehameha traveled overseas to sell sandalwood, but soon learned he could not make a profit due to port fees. Then all of the sudden Kamehameha decided to take the idea of port fees back to Hawaii. This idea that Kamehameha brought back with him was a great change. With the idea of port fees, the Hawaiian’s made profits that benefited their communities. The port fees proved to be extremely useful due to the fact that dozens of ships docked at Hawaii as a stopover.

The background of the situation is essential to understand its full impact From the way Nigeria was colonized, it was clear from the start that it would bode ill for the future inhabitants of Nigeria. Beginning in the 19th century, the British started to make their presence felt along the coast. In earlier

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Europeans had raced to colonize the country Africa. Great Britain was the leaders at this time in colonizing the land filled with rich natural recourses. These recourses were considered a necessity to the industrialization of the world, specifically Nigeria. During this colonization that Great Britain was doing in their new land, you could imagine that the locals were not too happy about this. The British had no respect for the culture or Nigerian traditions. The longer they stayed the more that they adopted for each other's cultures. However even with the cultural exchanges between the two countries, there was much conflict for the people of a dark colored skin

The first method of transportation that facilitated the development of Frederick’s economy was the use of waterways. This was accomplished by building ports along creeks and rivers. With these ports people were able to ship large amounts of raw materials back and forth between cities. The economy boomed. Shops and houses benefited from the increase in business along the routes. However, waterways as a mode of transportation soon became outdated. Frederick

This enormous increase in slave trade came from the chartered companies (given trade monopolies in exchange for fees), as well as from new maritime knowledge gained by repeated travels across what became known as the “The Middle Passage”, a stretch of water between the gold and slave coasts, the region of Angola, and Brazil and the West Indies.

the ports were a major aspect of the slave trade, places such as Bristol and Liverpool became major ports during the trans Atlantic slave trade. They made money by taxing the ship coming in and out of the ports.

The Atlantic Slave Trade was a never-ending cycle, so to speak, with each part playing an integral part in the continuum of the trade of human lives for over four centuries. There is no “beginning,” so I’d like to begin in a local market in the Igbo-speaking region of southern Nigeria in 1745. Olaudah Equiano recalls a bit about these markets in his narrative, “These are sometimes

Ships were important in the growth of the fishing industry, and the growth of one led to the growth of the other (Foner, VOF, 50). Coastal towns also grew as people settled on the banks to provide employment as well as gain from the expansive world. The ship making industry was support by the availability of trees and forests which provided ship making materials. Some of these were transported by the waterways such as rivers and all the way down to the coast. With the increase in the number of ships came more traffic and more globe-trotting. This also enhanced international trade and especially the Transatlantic Triangular Trade. This is where the three continents, Europe went to Africa to get slaves who would work on the plantations in America from where the Europeans would carry the raw materials back home which would be manufactured into finished goods.

This article is about european shippers mission was to pick up control of the exchanging arrangement of Africa. They saw the streams of Africa as the essential wellspring of exchange to a vital zone. They were alluded to as "roadways" that the Europeans could impact to open to their exchange and investigation. The primary motivation behind investigation in 1850s,1860s, and 1870s was Africa huge waterways. During the season of the 1870s Europeans were exchanging all through the significant streams; in any case, regardless they regarded Africa's power and had cooperations with rulers inside the landmass.

During the 1500’s the Atlantic System served as trading networks connecting Europe, Africa and the Americas. For the purposes of transporting goods to and from the Atlantic basin (Bulliet, 516). A large portion of the Atlantic system was used for the African Slave Trade through what is called the Middle Passage (Bulliet, 516).

The first was the weak sense of nationalism caused by all the ethnic groups where religion played a major part of the division. The main three ethnicities in Nigeria are Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo; the former is Muslim while the two latter are Christians. The second cause mentioned was the “divide and rule” which was a British tactic to employ ethnic groups against one another, and thus “helped ensure that ethnicity would be the main line of political cleavage after Nigeria became an independent country.” The third cause is the personal rule system based on “big men” and what this means is that Nigerian’s who worked for the British used their personal relationships to gain power and wealth, and in a certain way it is still used today in the Nigerian government. The fourth devastating cause was the “creation of an increasingly active and interventionist state during WWII and after until its independence in 1960, but that opened the doors to patronage, which would be used to gain political power and wealth. The past reveals the problems Nigeria has had for several decades, some of which have not disappeared but seem to get progressively worse. (CITATION)

oil in Nigeria. Nigeria’s large supply of high quality crude oil helped Shell climb to the top,

To begin with, the rise in oceanic trading during this time period had a direct and profound impact on Africa. Though this was not the first time in history that the world’s oceans were used to trade with Africa, there was seen a tremendous rise in both the trade’s significance and volume. Note that this increase in trade was not as prevalent on Africa’s interior as it was on coastal Africa, which includes the coastlines of the continent that touch the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. (Getz, 25) The use of the Mediterranean Sea was the main catalyst for the “cosmopolitanization” of Mediterranean Africa for many