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| Title: | The African poor: a history |
| Author: | Iliffe, John |
| Year: | 1987 |
| Issue: | 58 |
| Pages: | 387 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X) |
| City of publisher: | Cambridge |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 0521344158; 0521348773 |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | poverty social history |
| Abstract: | A history of the poor in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning in the monasteries of 13th century Ethiopia and ending in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated for labour, bereft of support, and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. Only recently there has emerged the new poverty of those excluded from access to productive resources. The author investigates what it was like to be poor, how the poor sought to help themselves, how their families helped, and how charitable institutions provided for them. He compares the history of the African poor with that of their counterparts in other continents. |
