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- W2502378624 abstract "attempt to ride the boom of timber exports in the 1920s.2 Their ingenuity in manipulating bureaucracy for their own benefit knew few limits. Meyo's relative, Theodore Nkogo, had run a small lumber firm from 1924 onwards. Owandault and Meyo took over the business at Nkogo's death in 1926, but neglected to inform the government of their partner's demise. The two men kept forging their deceased colleague's signature on invoices listing off timber exports until 1928. Not only did the duo take on the identity of a deceased relative under his name, they hired workers who had deserted from other camps to cut lumber and petitioned the government to punish stateappointed chiefs. The administrator who judged the case lamented their decision. He said, Why did you do this? You have a good salary, many wives, and lead a way of life impossible for most natives. Theodore Onwandault, you have a very comfortable house and are always well-dressed... Both men had served long careers as clerks in the colonial administration and for private firms, yet succumbed to the lure of lumber lucre. The administrator's bewilderment about Onwandault's motives is puzzling in itself, because Gabonese entrepreneurs knew full well how profitable timber exports could be and how far officials would go to eliminate African competition to European businesses. Discriminatory regulations led men like Onwandault to consider breaking the law. In the thinly-populated Gabon Estuary, the sudden formation of timber camps in the 1920S sparked competition over scarce manpower, access to trees, and control over land. Stateappointed chiefs, Gabonese and West African businessmen, local and migrant laborers, and European timber firms struggled with one another to maximize their profits. Chiefs manipulated their state patronage to control labor and resources in great demand by timber" @default.
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- W2502378624 title "GABONESE TIMBER INDUSTRY, ca. 192o - 1940'" @default.
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