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Title: | Cocoa Marketing in Colonial Ghana: Capitalist Enterprise and the Emergence of a Rural African Bourgeoisie |
Author: | Grier, Beverly |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | Ufahamu |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Period: | Fall |
Pages: | 89-115 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | economic history marketing cocoa colonialism Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
Abstract: | This paper is concerned with an examination of the development of the social structure of rural southern Ghana as the indigenous people of that region were incorporated, as a periphery, into the expanding world-wide economic system during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The first part of the paper examines society and economy in pre-capitalist Ghana. The second part looks closely at 19th century Ghana, as this period of the ending of the slave trade and the early collection and cultivation of oil palm and rubber was critical to preparing the way for later changes. Part three looks at the way in which cocoa and the extensive cultivation of it helped to consolidate and build upon changes that had begun to take place in preceding decades. Part four looks briefly at Ghana as a 'peripherally capitalist' area in the early-20th century and the implications this had for the relationship between indigenous capital, external capital and the colonial state. Notes. |