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| Title: | Borderlands, Boundaries, and the Contours of Colonial Rule: African Labor in Manica District, Mozambique, c.1904-1908 |
| Author: | Allina-Pisano, Eric |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 59-82 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Mozambique Portugal |
| Subjects: | colonialism labour migration History and Exploration Labor and Employment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3559319 |
| Abstract: | Using the case of Manica, a region in central Mozambique known for its mineral wealth - particularly gold -, during the period 1904-1908, this essay argues that cross-border labour mobility was crucial to the constitution of colonial power. Africans returned from southern Rhodesia to central Mozambique seeking to exchange British for Portuguese rule. The returnees negotiated the terms of their settlement in Portuguese territory with local administrators, extracting exemptions from labour recruitment as a condition of their return. The agreement they reached with the colonial administration concerning the disposition of their labour became the focal point of these African communities' relationship with the colonial State. Control over labour was crucial to the development of State power. However, the development of that power was not limited to State actors negotiating treaties between sovereign nations. It also involved local actors and thus African actors. Even within a structurally subordinate position, Africans helped determine the contours of colonial rule, injecting their interests into the formation of colonial power. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
