Traditional Igbo Economy: Challenges to Growth and Development

Abstract

The Igbo had at various times demonstrated the strong will to develop their society and economy. Her economy was practically anchored on the three main pivotal sectors namely, agriculture, non-agricultural production and trade. These sectors had over the years faced some challenges from within and outside the society. Since the pre-colonial period, the challenges, to a large extent, had threatened and rocked the very basic foundation of the traditional Igbo economy. Each of the sectors of the economy was indeed a victim of this circumstance at one time or the other from the pre-colonial up to the post-colonial eras.