West Africa's agriculture has, for 150 years, been heavily geared
toward export, yet the region is one of the world's poorest. Keith
Hart examines this question, focusing particularly on how this
situation has affected the indigenous peoples of West Africa.
Commerce has grown impressively, but productivity remains low and
capital accumulation is retarded. The reasons exist primarily in
internal conditions shaping social institutions. Before, during,
and since colonialism, the particular problems of these
preindustrial states have shaped agricultural development more than
the pressure supposedly emanating from the 'world system' of
international capitalism. This book, following the classical
economists as well as Marx and Lenin, argues for the necessity of
rapid capitalist penetration into West African agriculture. The
book is also a readable introduction to the history and ethnography
of the region as a whole.
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