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Title: | The mise and demise of socialist institutions in rural Mali |
Author: | Jones, William I. |
Year: | 1972 |
Periodical: | Genève-Afrique: acta africana |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 19-44 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mali |
Subjects: | social development socialism |
Abstract: | At independence (1960) the policy of the government of Mali aimed, at the so called Socialist Mobilization of the Rural Masses, to be accomplished chiefly through institutional change. These changes were expected to increase rural Malians' willingness to produce by removing colonialist exploitation, and to multiply the effectiveness of extension services, as well as of political organization. Mali's Socialist Mobilization of the Rural Masses was a failure. The experiment with rural institution-making ended by liquidating it, and the government that fostered it as well (1968). The government's program faltered because the villagers ignored some institutions the government wished them to adopt, turned others to local purposes and frustrated others which they could not control. Focussing on the attempt at rural institution-building the author examines: the pre-colonial and colonial institutions which the government inherited, the design of the government's scheme, and how the villages reacted. Notes, tables. |