veloped within the territories and with the metropolitan powers,2 and the foundation of financial institutions has been laid.3 A few industries have been developed: first, mineral and extractive industries, and recently, light industriessoap, beer, textiles, shoes, tobacco, dairy, and timber. These developments have had tremendous consequences on the society and on the modes of living of the West African. We shall trace these
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Pius Okigbo (1956) studied this question.