By Mac Dixon-Fyle
By means of analyzing the background of the Potts-Johnsons (an immigrant Saro (emigrant Krio humans) kinfolk from Sierra Leone) dwelling within the Port Harcourt area of Nigeria from approximately 1912-1984, this research stories the migration historical past of the Saro within the Niger River delta. The paintings additionally touches on many vital concerns to contemplate while getting to know African background: intra-African migration, prestige of and dominance via elites (both indigenous and immigrant), women's roles in social relationships, and the renovation of kinfolk and cultural values less than severe socio-economic tension.
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I am extremely grateful to these pioneers for the many hours they devoted to my typescript. But for their guidance, I would have erred in many more areas, and overlooked many a promising field of exploration. In the production process, I have received generous assistance from Toyin Falola and from Sean Culhane, Louise Goldberg, and Jane Toettcher of the University of Rochester Press, for which I am very thankful. My gra- Page xiii titude also goes to that anonymous reader of the manuscript for the very detailed and incisive comments which ultimately shaped the final product, and proved invaluable in the revision process.
2 These were major political developments that allowed some scope for the politics of lobbying and pamphleteering which appealed greatly to the Krio middle class of lawyers, doctors, newspaper editors, and other deeply political professionals. While acknowledging British magnanimity in these actions, Krio leaders such as T. C. Bishop, J. J. Thomas, A. J. Shorunkeh-Sawyer, and E. H. Cummings, among others, would initiate the debate on elective representation which Dr. H. C. 3 Britain and Nigeria The British occupation of Nigeria has to be seen within the context of the abolition of slavery, the European scramble for Africa, and the securing of Page 11 trading and other economic interests in the area.
That these hopes of compatriotic support were not always to be gratified, nor protection readily conferred, would be a matter of great distress for the beleaguered Saro. It is our concern also in this study to review the lines of social class that passed through Saro society, and to observe their careful mediation through the agency of the ethnic Union, that social leaven that made a community out of individuals of diverse means and a host of proclivities. These bonds would be at their most vital from the late 1940's, when, with the progressive erosion of Saro dominance, indigenous forces rose to crowd the Saro off the political stage, and consign them to the social margins.
A Saro community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984: the Potts-Johnsons of Port Harcourt and their heirs by Mac Dixon-Fyle