ARRIVE IN DJIMINI TOWARD 1740
Traders from nearby Kong (the Dyula) travel over relatively short distances with little capital or organization, and their gains are correspondingly slight.
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Dyula traders, 1905
Then come long-distance traders, from the Niger (Soninke) and Northern Nigeria (Hausa), whose networks, capital and profits are greater. So are their ambitions.
De Saint-Louis à Tripoli par le Chad by Lt.-Col. P.L. Monteil, 1895/ zoom
"Hausa traders transporting kola"
They introduce textiles...
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Then weaving, which is launched in their village of Marabadiassa: "Maraba" means "people of the east, that is, Hausa.
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Textiles are easy to produce and transport, and the market for them is inexhaustible. *They lead to seeking dyes and dye stabilizers, beget new sources of capital and bring the emergence of weavers and dyers.
* For their importance in a partly African neighborhood in Paris, please click.
When textiles appear
social transformation begins.
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