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Title: | Reflections on Economic and Social Change among the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia |
Author: | Dixon-Fyle, Mac |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 423-439 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | Tonga (Zambia, Zimbabwe) economic history Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration colonialism Labor and Employment |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/218744 |
Abstract: | The matrilineal Plateau Tonga are a sections of the Ila/Tonga group of peoples resident in the greater part of Southern Zambia. Not much is known of their precolonial history. During the years of colonial rule, the Tonga Plateau of Northern Rhodesia's Southern Province was the scene of far-reaching economic change brought about by the introduction of the wage economy and the expansion of commercial agriculture. In response to new economic imperatives, the local African population was to reorient its production and exchange strategies with such success that it was eventually regarded as a threat to the farming operations of the resident white settler population. This paper attempts a general survey of the factors involved in this exercise at agrarian adaptation which, in varying degrees, embraced the majority of the local population. Also is seen how agricultural change promoted a process of class formation and stratification, which culminated in the emergence of a small group of large-scale African producers. Map, notes. |