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Title: | Co-operators and bureaucrats: class formation in a Senegalese peasant society |
Author: | O'Brien, D.B. Cruise |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 263-278 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Senegal |
Subjects: | cooperatives civil service |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1158918 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1971-041-00-000024 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the present economic and political effects of the co-operative movement established with Senegal's national independence. The author argues that the national bureaucracy and political elite had much to gain in the establishment of a new framework of political control in the rural areas. The conflict of interest between the groundnut-growing peasants and the state apparatus may be identified as a legacy of French colonial rule, when officials of the 'Sociétés de Prévoyance' were able to profit from their status as privileged intermediaires. In the same way the co-operative officials, often chosen as local notables by government, are in a position to turn the institution to their own economic purposes. As a result of this situation, rural dissatisfaction is leading to boycotting of the co-operative movement by smuggling the groundnuts or by abandoning the cultivation. Ref., notes, French summary. |