Publications

The system of land use as practised in the mid-20th century was as follows: the fields, called the lands, were found outside the village at distances varying from 5 to 50 km. Every household maintained a temporary shelter at the lands for use during the agricultural season....

This anthology explains and highlights the 'political culture' of those people taxonomically referred to in South African racial legislation as "Coloured". It is based on articles written for a journal called 'The Educational Journal', which was...

The authors examine the empirical realities of interaction between the Government and citizens in rural Zambia - the channels of commmunication between Ward Development Committees and District Government in Chipata - and show that current explanations of administrative...

La disponibiblité des terres et d'une main-d'oeuvre relativement bon marché a été l'un des fondements de l'expansion et de la rentabilité de la riziculture capitaliste dans la vallée de Gbedembilisi, située dans le sud-est de la Builsa Traditional Area (...

Sum.: The West African governments fix annual producers' prices for most kinds of export produce. These prices, which are considerably lower than the corresponding world market prices, have to be paid by produce buyers, when they buy from farmers. This study reports on...

Sum.: In the West African countries of the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, cooperative societies are involved in buying coffee and cocoa from farmers. These cooperatives do not always pay exactly the producers' price as it is set by the respective governments....

Cette étude aborde la question de l'acquisition de droits sur la terre, tels que ceux-ci ont été mis au grand jour au cours du développement et du réglement d'un litige portant sur l'utilisation d'une parcelle située dans la ville de N'zara, chef-lieu...

Presuming reader familiarity with general works on Kenyan history and Kikuyu society, and more particularly with Mau Mau 'classics' such as Rosberg and Nottingham's 'The myth of Mau Mau' (New York, Praeger, 1966) and Barnett and Njama's 'Mau...

This literature study centres on Johan Galtung's 'A structural theory of imperialism' (1971), a theory which deals primarily with dominance relations between centre and periphery nations. The author applies a somewhat adjusted variant of the theory to the...

In 1976 a start was made with the setting up of a system of district planning based on consultation with the people at the village level. The intention was to replace a system of purely "top-down" planning with a system including strong elements of "bottom-up...

Abstr.: This case study from Eastern Zambia challenges the thesis that after independence an elite of privileged farmers entrenched itself through domination of the local political arena and a coalition with the civil service. It argues that such a view may be a reification...