The Politics of Agriculture in Tropical Africa

These essays-detailed case analyses of agriculture in Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan, Zambia, Zanre and Mozambique-reflect the prevailing confusion among the mainly socialist-oriented authors about how to deal with the present crisis. Largely avoiding dependency theory (except in discussing causes), they focus on the failures of large capital-intensive schemes in a variety of African political milieus, thus implicitly joining the broad Western consensus that small-farm development is the priority in Africa.