HST 041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Colonisation Of Africa
4 Oct 2016
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Economies of colonial africa, west africa and cash cropping, the political eonomy of cash cropping, African innovation and cask crops, migrant labor and minerals/settler farming. Cash crops took a hold of large parts of west africa. Africa"s being taxed, migrating to where they can work, and then they try to go back home. Non-governmental whites who settle in africa and make farms. Cash crops in the east, mining in the south, settlers in the east, wages rising all over. Cash cropping is the domain of western africa. African"s grow cash crops, exchange for money, pay their taxes, and use money to pay for stuff. Africans sometimes produced more than colonial powers expected them to do. But some who get into it late go into debt right away. And then people are forced to migrate to where the work is. Europeans are in control of imports, exports, prices, credit, decision making, food crops, industry processing and manufacturing, etc.
