The Political Economy of West African Agriculture (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 36)

The Political Economy of West African Agriculture (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 36) image
ISBN-10:

0521284236

ISBN-13:

9780521284233

Author(s): Hart, Keith
Edition: Annotated
Released: May 31, 1982
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
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Description:

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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