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The Political Economy of West African Agriculture

The Political Economy of West African Agriculture

Hart, Keith
Fortes, Meyer
Keith, Hart

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Book 36

Business GeneralAnthropology

ISBN10: 0521284236
ISBN13: 9780521284233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 31 1982
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
West Africa's agriculture has, for 150 years, been heavily geared toward export, yet the region is one of the world's poorest. Keith Hart examines this question, focusing particularly on how this situation has affected the indigenous peoples of West Africa. Commerce has grown impressively, but productivity remains low and capital accumulation is retarded. The reasons exist primarily in internal conditions shaping social institutions. Before, during, and since colonialism, the particular problems of these preindustrial states have shaped agricultural development more than the pressure supposedly emanating from the 'world system' of international capitalism. This book, following the classical economists as well as Marx and Lenin, argues for the necessity of rapid capitalist penetration into West African agriculture. The book is also a readable introduction to the history and ethnography of the region as a whole.

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