This book discusses the social and political consequences of the
economic and financial crisis that befell African economies since
the 1980s, using as case study the plantation economy of the
Anglophone region of Cameroon. The focus is thus on recent efforts
to liberalize and privatize an agro-industrial enterprise where
overseas capital and its domestic partners have converged, the
consequent modes of production and labour, and the alternatives
proposed and resistance generated. The study details how the
unprecedented crisis caused great commotion in the region, and
presented a serious challenge to existing theories on plantation
production and capital accumulation. The crisis resulted in the
introduction of a number of neoliberal economic reforms, including
the withdrawal of state intervention and the restructuring,
liquidation and privatisation of the major agro-industrial
enterprises. These reforms in turn had severe consequences for
several civil-society groups and their organisations that had a
direct stake in the regional plantation economy, notably the
regional elite, chiefs, plantation workers and contract farmers. On
the basis of extensive research in the Anglophone Cameroon region,
Konings shows that these civil-society groups have never resigned
themselves to their fate but have been actively involved in a
variety of formal and informal modes of resistance.
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