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Title: | Local Adaptation and the Transformation of an Imperial Concession in North-Eastern Botswana |
Author: | Werbner, Richard P. |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 32-41 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | trading companies colonialism History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159676 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1971-041-00-000003 |
Abstract: | While the British Government established a Protectorate in Botswana, it did not continue to protect all the land in the country as tribal territory. A tract of about 2,000 square miles cane to be known as the Tati Concession of the Tati Company, which won in 1911 a dubious title to ownership of surface rights. Eventually the Concession was divided into a Reserve for Kalanga and their Tswana-speaking neighbours, for which part the Protectorate Administration paid the Company an annual rent, and another part for which the Company either got rent from European or African tenants, or ranched, mined, leased or sold it to other landlords and ranchers. Subject of this paper is the way in which patterns of settlement and modes of working and holding land are transformed and adapted to diverse political and economic relations. Notes, French summary. |