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Contents: INTRODUCTION • I. PRE-COLONIAL SYSTEMS OF CULTIVATION, LAND TENURE AND POLITICAL STRUCTURE • II. CONDITIONAL VARIABLES • III. THREE TYPES OF AFRICAN PEASANTRY • 1. CASH-CROPPING PEASANTRY • 2. LABOR-EXPORTING PEASANTY • 3. MARGINAL-SUBSISTENCE PEASANTRY • CONCLUSION • APPENDIX- PRINCIPAL PRODUCING AREAS OF COCOA, COFFEE, COTTON AND GROUND-NUTS • BIBLIOGRAPHY • The pamphlet is a study of peasants (rural people engaged in agricultural production largely to meet their subsistence needs), who have been incorporated, often involuntarily, into states and empires within which they normally occupies a subordinate position. The study considers how certain types of peasantry organize around common interests and whether they have revolutionary potential, particularly in dynamic situations in Africa. The pamphlet mentions French West Africa, the Gold Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, the Belgian Congo (Zaire), French Equatorial Africa, Kenya, Northern Rhodesia, Tanginika, Southern Rhodesia, the Union of South Africa, South West Africa, Swaziland, Portuguese colonies, Angola, Mozambique, Nyasaland, and Tropical Africa, as well as the Kikuyu, Kabyles in Algeria, the Pondo, Ovambo, Luena, Chokwe, and Umbundu. It also discusses traditional political systems, European farms and plantations, raw materials, African labor, peasant villages, the Maize Control Act, wage employment, indigenous population, traditional chiefs, the British-Dutch Unilever, Société commerciale de l'Ouest Africain, pre-industrial peoples, rural development, colonial governments, low wages, short-term contracts, animal husbandry, cocoa, bananas, palm oil, capital outlays, poverty, squatters, and "urbanized" men.

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Peasant Types and Revolutionary Potential in Colonial Africa

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