The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West AfricaIf colonialism was the product of capitalism, as conventional wisdom would have it, why were the intersts of capitalism so ill-served? This is the central enigma which Anne Phillips confronts in this study of British colonial policy formulation in West Africa. North America: Indiana U Press |
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Precolonial West Africa | 25 |
Land Policies | 111 |
References and Bibliography | 164 |
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Abeokuta Acting Governor African Lands Committee African West Annual Report areas argued argument Ashanti BCGA British West Africa C.O. minutes capitalist century chiefs Coast Labour Department Coast Sessional Paper cocoa industry colo colonial administrators colonial governments Colonial Office colonial policies Commissioner commodity production concessions cultivation E. D. Morel economic employment European existing export factory farmers farms favour Further Correspondence Ghana Gold Coast cocoa Gold Coast Labour Gold Coast Sessional Governor to Secretary ibid individual Labour Department labour supply Lagos land policy legislation Lever London Lugard Memorandum ment migration mining companies Morel native Northern Nigeria Northern Territories Nworah Oil Palm Ordinance ownership palm oil palm oil industry peasant production peasantry plantations pre-colonial private capital private property problem processing proposed Protectorate railway recruitment rent scheme Sierra Leone slavery slaves Sokoto Caliphate tion trade wage labour WALC West African Lands West African Policy workers Yoruba