No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Sara S. Berry.
Description
“No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry’s theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book explores the complex way African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labor, offering a comparative study of agrarian change in four rural economies in sub-Saharan Africa, including two that experienced long periods of expanding peasant production for export (southern Ghana and southwestern Nigeria), a settler economy (central Kenya), and a rural labor reserve (northeastern Zambia). ...
ISBN(s)
0299139344, 9780299139346
