Kenya's Primitive Colonial Capitalism: The Economic Weakness of Kenya Settlers Up to 1940

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Title:	Kenya's Primitive Colonial Capitalism: The Economic Weakness of Kenya Settlers Up to 1940
Author:	Zwanenberg, Paul V.
Year:	1975
Periodical:	Canadian Journal of African Studies
Volume:	9
Issue:	2
Pages:	277-292
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Kenya
Subjects:	colonists Whites colonial economy colonialism History and Exploration Economics and Trade
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/484084
Abstract:	Primitive colonial capitalism refers to the period of relative domestic violence and brutality with the local community. To exist and prosper the settlers needed to capture the State and to organize the entire society in such a way that they would be able to exploit every element in it to provide the financial accumulation necessary for their activities. The violence and brutality of the State was directly related to the needs of the settlers. This paper outlines and documents the economic poverty and the technical inadequacy of the settler majority; The classification of settlers - The insolvent economy - The failure of private credit and the depression - The Land Bank - The inefficient economy - Conclusion. Notes, table.