PROGRAMME EIGHT
Focuses on
the traditional economic systems and organizations, such as the household, age
grades, communal labour, savings associations, and markets. The programme takes
off from the established premise that before the introduction of Western
economy, it was not the practice for individuals or indigenous groups in Nigeria
to sell their labour outside the constraints of slavery and hostage labour. The
family was the basic unit of production.
This was
supplemented by communal labour organized at the level of the village or of age
sets. The market had other social and cultural significance besides its
principal role as a centre of exchange.
House in Owerri Figure of a motor transport magnate and symbols of his (horse) power
This programme presents the similarities
and contrasts in the economic side of the culture of Nigerian peoples which
deserve attention as much as modes of worship and styles of dancing.
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