| | Nigerian marketing boards, established in 1947, have been used to serve various interests, hardly any of which benefit the producers. They were introduced to "meet British needs", but Nigerian politicians found them to be a ready-built instrument to tax farmers, enrich themselves, and fund their political activities. Examines the provenance of the marketing boards, which have a monopoly on the legal export of certains crops, and of the arguments which justified their inception during the crisis of the colonial economy in the 1930s, including details of The Nowell Report, and reference to British Cotton Growers Association (BCGA) and United Africa Company (UAC). |
