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Title:Cotton Imperialism in West Africa
Author:Johnson, Marion
Year:1974
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:73
Issue:291
Period:April
Pages:178-187
Language:English
Geographic terms:West Africa
United Kingdom
Subjects:cotton
trade
colonial economy
History and Exploration
colonialism
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/720736
Abstract:Opposed to other widely accepted theories, the pre-colonial West African economy was a subsistence economy (production for own needs) as well as an extra-subsistence economy (production for markets). One of the largest of the extra-subsistence industries, in many parts of West Africa, was the weaving of cotton cloth. This was one of the main reasons why the export of raw cotton from West Africa to England and the import of Manchester cotton into this area was doomed to fail. Notes.
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