Socialism and Change in Rural Mali

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Title:	Socialism and Change in Rural Mali
Author:	Hopkins, Nicholas S.
Year:	1969
Periodical:	Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:	7
Issue:	3
Pages:	457-467
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Mali
Subjects:	social development Politics and Government Development and Technology Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/159063
Abstract:	Describes the kinds of social change that have taken place, in rural Mali, in reaction to the efforts of the central political and administrative authorities of Mali to create a new kind of society inspired by socialist ideas. From the time the Union soudanaise came to power it was committed to the idea of a social revolution along soda list lines. The success of such a revolution depended on the ability of the government to mobilise the people, Mali leaders recognised this, and emphasised the importance of the participation of the entire population in these projects. The empirical questions are: how this vision of the world was turned into concrete programmes for rural social change, how pressure was applied, and how people responded. To these questions this article is directed. It is based on field work in the area around the small town of Kita in western Mali in 1964-65. Ref.