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Political and Economic Change in the War Years and after, 1939-49

The 1940's were a most eventful decade for Potts-Johnson and the Saro of Port Harcourt. Not only did the immigrant community witness a major global conflict with significant ramifications for township life, it began also to experience major transformations in its station as strangers in a Nigerian territory soon to be engulfed in major nationalist activity. Stranger status came under increasing assault and intense scrutiny, and profound questions regarding the longterm residence of nonNigerians in a politically independent territory began to be raised with a disturbing regularity. Before we re…