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The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa

Edited by Robin Palmer and Neil Parsons
Reviewed by By Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Fall 1978
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Edited by Robin Palmer and Neil Parsons
University of California Press
1978
448 pp.
$16.50

This group of essays focuses on a little-known area - the pre-colonial economies and their alteration under the impact of white rule - providing a useful background for understanding development patterns today.