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The imposition of tolls and duties by African states had the effect of protecting indigenous manufactures, for British imports were usually transported over longer distances and subjected to more duties than local manufactures. This was one of the major problems of the Jebus, who imposed duties on goods transported between Lagos and Yorubaland. It was estimated that, since TRADE AND POOR ECONOMIES 43 the Yoruba were all fully clad, and at least 95 per cent of cloth consumed was of local manufacture, the interference of the Jebus cut the British off from a market of 30m yards of cloth per year [CO 879/33, No.
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E. 10 Land was relatively abundant throughout West Africa in the precolonial period, and rights in land held by individuals derived from their membership of a community which had acquired control over a given area of land. The specific rights of individuals in land varied in different parts of West Africa, but all land tenure systems were in this sense ‘communal’, in that individual rights derived from membership of a community. Marx describes the effects of communal land tenure as follows: TRADE AND POOR ECONOMIES 39 The fundamental condition of property based on tribalism (which is originally formed out of the community) is to be a member of the tribe.
