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Title:Cash crops and class formation: the case of the Gatanga coffee growers' co-operative society
Author:Ng'ang'a, D. Mukaru
Year:1976
Periodical:Journal of Eastern African Research and Development
Volume:6
Issue:1
Pages:69-84
Language:English
Geographic term:Kenya
Subjects:cash crops
international trade
social classes
Abstract:This paper looks into how cash crop growing contributed to, social differentiation and class formation in Gatanga, a location in Kandara, Huranga District in the Central Region of Kenya. The aim of the Colonial Administration to develop Kenya through White Settlers, to prohibit Africans to grow cash crops so as to supply the White Settled areas with labour, the impact that white settlements and the colonial Administration had on the Africans and their economies is examined. In its last decade, the Colonial Administration created a cash crop growing loyalist landed class to serve as collaborators. Sections: Change of attitude; Africans and the growing of cash crops - Cash crops, co-operatives and _class formation: the Gatanga case - Pro-cash crop economy in Gatanga - The emergency and the emergence of loyalists - Class formation and the formation of Gatanga Coffee Growers. Co-operative Society - Land consolidation and class consolidation - Class advancement and the Gatanga Coffee Growers' Co-operative Society - Conclusion. Ref., table.
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