Finance, Investment and Decolonisation in Nigeria: Early market formation and participation on the Lagos Stock Exchange, 1957–1967 (2022)
Mariusz Lukasiewicz (Author)
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
Volume: 67
Issue: 2
Pages: 189-217
Edition Details: State enterprises in Africa: A postcolonial history
Language: English
Given the relative scarcity of capital and the small volume of savings in most African economies at independence, the establishment of stock exchanges and their regulation showed that several countries considered them as strategic financial intermediaries for channelling capital to their national, and even regional, economies. This article examines the Lagos Stock Exchange’s formative years as a political process of Nigeria’s decolonisation and the First Republic. Originally incorporated as a private limited liability company on 15 September 1960, and as the first stock exchange in West Africa and the region’s largest economy, the new financial intermediary defined the relationship between the post-independence state and the growing capital market during a period of considerable political and economic changes. The role of the post-independence state and state-owned enterprises in facilitating the trade on the Lagos Stock Exchange broadens the analytical scope of this investigation to identify the sources of Nigeria’s development finance. While significant efforts were taken to grow private individual participation in the share trade and ownership, the early years of the Lagos Stock Exchange were ultimately marked by the dominance of institutional investors such as state-owned enterprises and private commercial banks.
...MoreArticle Alexander Keese; Marie Huber (2022) Introduction: State enterprises in Africa: A postcolonial history. Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte (pp. 167-187).
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