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GLOBALISATION AND TECHNOLOGY: KANO’S TEXTILE AND SOKOTO’S LEATHER INDUSTRIES IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Abstract
The main objective of the paper is to examine the impact of the globalisation process on two selected industries, textile in Kano and leather in Sokoto. The methodology is largely qualitative and historical based on a linear trajectory of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods in line with the historical evolution of globalisation. Two forms of data have been collected: the hard form from published works on economic and social history in books, journal articles, and news paper reports, and the soft form from e-sources and websites. The results of the historical analysis and interpretation show that the industries fared well in the trans-Saharan trade period because the technology of production was indigenous, and the market size was local and international. But the British industrial-led colonialism was a mixed development: it undermined the survival of the indigenous industries on local technology and modernised the techniques of production but for the local market on the other hand. However, the inability of the industries to keep pace with rapid technological innovations coupled with global free trade ideology in the contemporary phase of globalisation nailed their coffins. Kano and Sokoto lost out marginally and became dumping grounds for comparatively cheaper new imported textiles and leather goods, and cheapest second-hand clothing. To reverse the de-industrialisation process and recapture the lost precolonial global market, the paper recommends technological independence through the promotion of quality science and technology education.
Keyword: Globalisation; Colonialism; De-industrialisation; Native Industry: Science and Technology, Education.