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Title: | Salt, Trade, and Disease: Aspects of Development in Africa's Northern Great Lakes Region |
Author: | Good, Charles M. |
Year: | 1972 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 543-586 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Uganda Congo (Democratic Republic of) Rwanda Burundi |
Subjects: | salt industry trade Development and Technology Economics and Trade History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/217269 |
Abstract: | Purpose of this paper is: 1) to evaluate the historical and contemporary importance of three focal zones of salt production and trade in the northern section of the western rift valley and its plateau borderlands (these sources are located at Lake Katwe, Kasenyi, and Kibero); 2) to assess the degree to which the precolonial salt centers and concomitant trade systems retained their viability and strategic importance, as well as their ability to accommodate forces of change, after the advent of colonial administration; 3) to examine the imminent modernization of the ancient Katwe salt industry under the aegis of the Uganda Development Corporation (this scheme will cause the retirement of the last remaining professional salt winners in Uganda, and will abolish traditional methods of salt extraction which have persisted with few modification until today) Maps, notes. |