Land and people in Nigeria: the human geography of Nigeria and its environmental background

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1955
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Warwick Square, London: University of London Press Ltd.,
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the environmental setting: geology relief and drainage, climate, vegetation, soils, disease as an element in the Nigerian environment; the human pattern: the pattern of population, racial and cultural groups; the agricultural economy: subsistence and internal exchange economies, distribution of some of the major subsistence crops, the livestock economy, peasant export production, plantation production, new ways for old in Nigerian peasant farming; forest resources; mining and industry: mineral production, industry; transport: railways, road transport, ports, Inland waterways, air services, other transport forms; public and social services: water supply, electricity, medical services, education, postal and similar communications, maps; the future.

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In spite of the growing importance of Africa in university studies and in spite of the growing interest in the problems of African development, there exist few studies of the geography of the British African Territories sufficiently detailed to serve either as a textbook at university level or as a source of background material for those concerned, directly or indirectly, with development projects. This volume has been prepared as an attempt to overcome this deficiency as far as Nigeria is concerned. It is hoped that it will be of value not only to university students in West Africa and overseas but also to private individuals and individuals in Government service who wish for a general picture of the resources and problems of Britain’s largest colonial dependency.
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