My current research includes an examination, on the one hand, of the social, political and economic implications in the first half of the 19th century in the Lower Niger & Niger Delta communities of West Africa of the conjunction between rural producers and marketers of palm oil, and on the other, the new (global) international economic demands & influences, together with its accompanying diplomatic and political impulses that began to emanate from industrialized capitalist Europe. I am also looking at the dynamics involved in the relationship between Christian missionary organizations and their rural (and other) targets in West Africa during the same period.
