Stephen Bunker challenges the image of peasants as passive victims
and argues that coffee growers in the Bugisu District of Uganda,
because they own land and may choose which crops to produce,
maintain an unusual degree of economic and political independence.
Focusing on peasant struggles for market control over coffee
exports in Bugisu from colonial times through the reign and
overthrow of Idi Amin, Bunker shows that these freeholding peasants
acted collectively and used the state's dependence on coffee export
revenues to effectively influence and veto government programs
inimical to their interests.
Bunker's work vividly portrays the small victories and great trials
of ordinary people struggling to control their own economic destiny
while resisting the power of the world economy.
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