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Title:Co-operators and bureaucrats: class formation in a Senegalese peasant society
Author:O'Brien, D.B. CruiseISNI
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.
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