IDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mouride, Tsetse Fly, Wage Labour
26 Nov 2012
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Idsa01 lecture 7 early colonial economies in africa. It was the colonial period that sets a rigid framework of african burdens that they had to cope with. Regional variations in emergence of colonial economy: west africa: african peasant production, e and s africa: european controlled capitalist production. Beyond basic division above, four basic types of economy: colonies of african peasant production, settler colonies with european farms and plantation, colonies relying on mining, a combination of the above. From beg each colony integrated into intl economy as specialist producer of narrow range of commodities; emergence of monocultures. Widespread use of forced labour until after wwii. Regional variation: west africa: peasant response to market demand, groundnuts (peanuts); cocoa. Regional variation: equatorial africa: different pattern- less market exposure before colonial period, congo free state private property of belgian king, leopold, brutal violence to extract resources.
