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Title:White Settlers in Uganda: The Era of Hopes and Disillusionment, 1905-1923
Author:Mutibwa, Phares M.
Year:1976
Periodical:Transafrican Journal of History
Volume:5
Issue:2
Pages:112-122
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subjects:colonists
Europeans
Ethnic and Race Relations
History and Exploration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
colonialism
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24520238
Abstract:Britain acquired Uganda, like other British territories, in order to exploit her resources, in particular raw materials such as cotton, sugar, coffee, cocoa and rubber. For Uganda, the problem with which the earlier British administrators in Entebbe and the British government in London were faced was to decide whether these crops should be plantation or peasant grown. It was a matter which was not resolved for the administrators for some twenty years or so. The author outlines the fluctuating fortunes of European planter in Uganda in the early 1900s. By 1923, when the. new Colonial Secretary, the Duke of Devonshire, pronounced himself against the European planters on two issues - land and labour - the European planters had already failed, lamentably as farmers in Uganda. African peasant farming had competed with the European plantation farming for a period of close to twenty years and in the end had triumphed over the latter. The Duke of Devonshire's decision merely confirmed the status quo. Ref.
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