Colonial Agriculture For Africans

Author : Dickson A. Mungazi,L. Kay Walker
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023436293

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Colonial Agriculture for Africans by Dickson A. Mungazi,L. Kay Walker Pdf

The massive starvation that African nations experience from time to time occurs, as evidenced by this study, because of agricultural and educational policies formulated and implemented by the colonial governments during the nineteenth and half of the twentieth century. A study of any aspect of any colonial period reveals some disturbing realities that can be comprehended only in retrospect. The policy, contrary to the colonial government's, that Emory D. Alvord formulated and pursued regarding the agricultural development for Africans in colonial Zimbabwe from 1926 to 1950 is examined. The authors discuss the political environment that influenced his effort and the problems that he encountered.

Author : Geoffrey Bussell Masefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4511356

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A History of the Colonial Agricultural Service by Geoffrey Bussell Masefield Pdf

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039284653

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Imperialism, Colonialism, and Hunger by Robert I. Rotberg Pdf

Author : Anne Thurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106007878231

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Smallholder Agriculture in Colonial Kenya by Anne Thurston Pdf

Author : Robin Law,Suzanne Schwarz,Silke Strickrodt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847010759

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Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa by Robin Law,Suzanne Schwarz,Silke Strickrodt Pdf

This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham.

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788731201

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Pdf

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.

Author : Sara S. Berry
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299139346

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No Condition Is Permanent by Sara S. Berry Pdf

“No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry’s theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book explores the complex way African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labor, offering a comparative study of agrarian change in four rural economies in sub-Saharan Africa, including two that experienced long periods of expanding peasant production for export (southern Ghana and southwestern Nigeria), a settler economy (central Kenya), and a rural labor reserve (northeastern Zambia). The resources available to African farmers have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century. Berry asserts that the ways resources are acquired and used are shaped not only by the incorporation of a rural area into colonial (later national) and global political economies, but also by conflicts over culture, power, and property within and beyond rural communities. By tracing the various debates over rights to resources and their effects on agricultural production and farmers’ uses of income, Berry presents agrarian change as a series of on-going processes rather than a set of discrete “successes” and “failures.” No Condition Is Permanent enriches the discussion of agrarian development by showing how multidisciplinary studies of local agrarian history can constructively contribute to development policy. The book is a contribution both to African agrarian history and to debates over the role of agriculture in Africa’s recent economic crises.

Author : Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498529259

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The Second Colonial Occupation by Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina Pdf

In this insightful book, development historian Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina addresses the crisis of development in Africa by locating it in its colonial historical past. Using Nigeria as a case study, he argues that the nature and practice of British colonialism in this colony created social and economic deficiencies that have left a legacy of underdevelopment. Ukelina outlines the processes that led to the 1945 Nigerian Development Plan and the evolution of colonial agricultural policy and practices in Nigeria. He argues that a few key factors led to the failure of development in the late colonial period: the imperial and neocolonial imperative to exploit African resources and people, poor planning as a result of this imperative, and the racial ideologies of the colonial state that resulted in a total rejection of local African experience and knowledge in favor of Western ‘experts.’ The Second Colonial Occupation uncovers and analyzes the short and long term impact of colonialism. It reveals that though colonial rule was promoted as a benevolent mission, at heart, it was a system that guaranteed that Africans continuously paid for their own exploitation. Ukelina argues that ‘postcolonial’ Africa will continue to face development challenges unless it breaks free from the intellectual relics of colonial rule and the economic shackles of neocolonialism.

Author : Geoffrey Bussell Masefield
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1978-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015000397316

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A Short History of Agriculture in the British Colonies by Geoffrey Bussell Masefield Pdf

The amateurs, 1492-1660. The mercantile empire, 1660-1838. Private enterprise, 1838-1900. Public service, 1900-1948.

Author : Jean Davison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429712906

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Agriculture, Women, And Land by Jean Davison Pdf

This book examines gender relations to land relations that are crucial to formulating policies through which African women's food producing capabilities can be advanced. It addresses the need to document historical changes in land tenure practices that have influenced women's household production.

Author : Martin A. Klein
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015054100899

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Peasants in Africa by Martin A. Klein Pdf

Monograph on subsistence farming and social change among small farmers and tenant farmers in Africa - includes historical account of the peasantry under colonialism and examines rural area social stratification, agricultural production according to social system, impact of land tenure and export-oriented commercial farming, rural women, state intervention and peasant movements, etc. Maps and references.

Author : Joseph Hodge,Gerald Hodl,Martina Kopf
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526110862

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Developing Africa by Joseph Hodge,Gerald Hodl,Martina Kopf Pdf

This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa. Combining historiographical accounts with analyses from other academic viewpoints, this book investigates a range of contexts, from agriculture to mass media. With its focus on the conceptual side of development and its broad geographical scope, it offers new and unique perspectives. An extensive introduction contextualises the individual chapters and makes the book an up-to-date point of entry into the subject of colonial development, not only for a specialist readership, but also for students of history, development and postcolonial studies. Written by scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, Developing Africa is a uniquely international dialogue on this vital chapter of twentieth-century transnational history.

Author : I. D. Talbott
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0889462623

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Agricultural Innovation in Colonial Africa by I. D. Talbott Pdf

This is a study which aims to uncover the role played by African agriculture during the Great Depression of the 1930's with particular emphasis on innovation and change. The volume investigates the development of the goverment's program, the agricultural experimentation and the effects of encouragement on the provinces of Coast, Nyanza and Central. It examines the factors that prompted the colonial administration to take action to alter the nature of African farming in Kenya.

Author : Monica M. Van Beusekom
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056215356

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Negotiating Development by Monica M. Van Beusekom Pdf

An in-depth examination of the interaction between French colonial development theory and practice at the Office du Niger in what was then French Soudan (Mali). - Focusing on the Office du Niger's irrigation project it analyses how and why development policies emerge, persist and change - The author argues that Africans not only influenced farming and marketing practices, but also re-shaped French concepts of rural development, as well as transforming French colonial perceptions of Africans and African societies. - Of importance to historians of colonialism in African as well as to scholars, students and policy makers working on issues of development theory and practice.

Author : Sir Alan Pim
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014653207

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Colonial Agricultural Production by Sir Alan Pim Pdf

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