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Title:Households and the Political Economy of Small-Scale Cash Crop Production in South-Western Nigeria
Author:Clarke, Julian
Year:1981
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:51
Issue:4
Pages:807-823
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:economic history
cash crops
subsistence farming
Economics and Trade
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159355
https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1981-051-00-000022
Abstract:Anthony Hopkins' 'Economic history of West Africa' (London, 1973) appears to provide a theoretically guided account of the processes of change affecting West Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hopkins maintains that the transition from the slave trade to legitimate trade provided the setting for the emergence of a category of small-scale cash crop producers and precipitated a struggle between this nascent petit bourgeoisie and a politically and economically dominant aristocracy of chiefs and military leaders. The present author, however, proposes another analysis, on the basis of field work undertaken among a particular Yoruba community in 1973/74. He describes the relationship between changing household structure and the development of small-scale farming enterprises which followed on from the colonial invasion. He sees the colonial invasion, and not the abolition of the slave trade, as the main point of discontinuity and the initiator of changes ensuring that export production would be dominated by small-scale enterprises. Notes, ref., French sum.
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