HISTORY 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Racism, Cowry, David Livingston
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Resistance from below (as opposed to kings, queens, etc. ) Cultivation in communal plots split between governors (akidas/jumbe), colonial admin, and laborers. Col were experimenting for the first time in agriculture in africa didn"t have the background or knowledge of the area. Course of jumpstart region via introduction of cash crops many issues: didn"t work competition for land and labor between cash crops and staple crops (food) Overall bc of this competition btwn cash and staple shortage of land and leads to famine. Ppl of swahili or arab background (akida/jumbe) were harsh in their treatment of local ppl inclu flogging, sexual harassment intermediaries link btwn state and locals. Had a lot of power and often left to their own devices. Success of a chief often reliant on how successful at recruiting labor. Tanganyika (tanzania today) suffered from the akida/jumbe treatment. A lot of eutopian civilization expulsion of europeans, etc.