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| Title: | Kandjadja, Guinea-Bissau 1976-1986: Observations on the Political Economy of an African Village |
| Author: | Rudebeck, Lars |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 41 |
| Period: | September |
| Pages: | 17-29 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Guinea-Bissau |
| Subjects: | rural society local politics Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248808703760 |
| Abstract: | Recent work in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau argues that in both, the transition to socialism has been obstructed by three basic failures: to create a peasant-based strategy of rural development; to sustain popular participation; and to ensure that the State represented the interests of workers and peasants. The leadership has failed to recreate after independence the political alliance with the peasantry that successfully supported the anticolonial liberation struggle. Instead, there has been a centralization of power and an erosion of party and State at local level, with policies and institutions working to benefit a growing petty bourgeoisie, at the expense of peasants. The author provides a case study of these processes for a single village in northern Guinea-Bissau, Kandjadja, which he has visited five times since 1976. For each visit he compares the condition and functioning of local political institutions, health, education and the people's store, and the nature and level of production. A picture emerges of neglect by the State and erosion of the party, in favour of institutions and relationships based more on prewar social and political structures. Ref. |
