JAMB - History (2002 - No. 14)
It was difficult for the Nigerian coastal chiefs to give up the slave trade after its abolition because
it had been part of African culture
Africans were too involved to give up the trade
the British Navy was not effective in enforcing the abolition
the trade was still crucial to the economy of their states.
Forklaring
The trade was very lucrative as participants made enormous revenue from it and were not ready to abandon
it for any other type of trade the value of which they had not yet known
it for any other type of trade the value of which they had not yet known