The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of BiafraThe Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra. By showing that the rise of the Aro merchant group was the key factor in trade expansion, G. Ugo Nwokeji reinterprets why and how such large scale commerce developed in the absence of large scale centralized states. The result is the first study to link the structure and trajectory