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Journal articles on the topic "Peasants, africa"

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Huizer, Gerrit. "Les mouvements sociaux en Amérique latine : quel enseignement pour l’Afrique ?" Politique africaine 42, no. 1 (1991): 74–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/polaf.1991.5476.

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Social movments in Latin America : what lessons for Africa ? Social movements, particularly those of peasants, have proliferated in Latin America more than in Africa (with exception of Kenya, Algeria and Zimbabwe) probably because the impact of (internal) colonialism has been more blatant. Destruction of the agricultural life support systems of the indigenous peasants led to massively organized peasant movements or rebellions in Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil and Cuba to achieve land reform. Presently the process of peasant mobilization, now enhanced even by the Churches, is hindered or blocked with foreign support (often CIA), in the interest of local and global power elites.
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Apthorpe, Raymond. "II) EASTERN AFRICA: PEASANTS AND PLANISTRATORS." Institute of Development Studies Bulletin 1, no. 3 (May 22, 2009): 13–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.1969.mp1003004.x.

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Isaacman, Allen. "Peasants and Rural Social Protest in Africa." African Studies Review 33, no. 2 (September 1990): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524470.

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Mkandawire, Thandika. "The terrible toll of post-colonial ‘rebel movements’ in Africa: towards an explanation of the violence against the peasantry." Journal of Modern African Studies 40, no. 2 (June 2002): 181–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x02003889.

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Many post-independence rebel movements in Africa have unleashed extremely brutal forms of violence, especially against the peasantry. Such violence, which has bewildered many observers, cannot be explained by reference to African ‘culture’, nor as an expression of rational self-interest. Instead, it must be seen in the light of the essentially urban issues that have fomented rebellion, which cannot however be successfully pursued in major towns, where incumbent regimes possess a monopoly of force. Retreating to the countryside, however, rebels can rarely swim among the peasantry like Mao's fishes in the sea. The African rural setting is generally deeply inimical to liberation war, because peasants enjoy direct control over their own land, and surplus expropriation takes place through the market, rather than through an exploitative landlord class. The African situation, too, has tended to favour ‘roving’ rather than ‘stationary’ rebellions, in Olson's terms; many rebels are merely passing through the countryside, on their way to seek power in towns. Having little in common with the peasantry, and nothing to offer it, they resort to violence as the only way to control it. However incoherent their objectives, and however brutal their methods, rebellions nonetheless reflect a serious urban malaise that needs to be addressed.
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Lambert, Michael C. "From Citizenship to Négritude: “Making a Difference” in Elite Ideologies of Colonized Francophone West Africa." Comparative Studies in Society and History 35, no. 2 (April 1993): 239–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500018363.

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By examining three historical stages between 1914 and the late 1950s in the development of African political ideology in Francophone West Africa, this essay will explore the problem represented by the category of the colonized.1 This category, first formulated in 1961 by Frantz Fanon, has increasingly been used to revise understandings of African ideologies formed before 1960 in terms of political economy. Indeed, ever since Fanon published his polemical, The Wretched of the Earth (1968), the rage of the colonized has been naturalized in academic literature as the reaction to colonization. Yet in arguing that the rage of the peasants did not characterize the reaction of the “most completely” colonized (the elites and merchants), Fanon acknowledged that rage did not define the position of his elite predecessors. Fanon's work appeared in the twilight of the colonial era not as a dispassionate analysis but as a call to action. He intended to awaken the peasant's rage, which he considered the legitimate and local reaction to colonialism, within the elites, who did not share this attitude towards the colonizer.
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Martín, Víctor O. Martín, Luis M. Jerez Darias, and Carlos S. Martín Fernández. "Agrarian reforms in Africa 1980–2016: solution or evolution of the agrarian question?" Africa 89, no. 03 (July 16, 2019): 586–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972019000536.

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AbstractThe first period of agrarian reforms with clear state control over the land (African socialisms) took place between 1945 and 1980, but then a second period started in which market agrarian reforms have prevailed. This work synthesizes agrarian structural reform policies (property systems and land tenure) between 1980 and 2016 in African countries, especially those that had or have bureaucratic bourgeoisie governments (one-party and/or African socialist). The two periods are complementary, rather then being opposed to each other, as state agrarian reforms smoothed the path to market agrarian reforms. Although there is not yet sufficient empirical research on the results of the agrarian reforms implemented during this period, our hypothesis is that they are helping to: increase the unequal structure of property; develop tenure systems and non-capitalist contractual labour relations in new ways, both non-associative (the grabbing of vast tracts of land) and associative (renewed control of customary lands by traditional authorities); and force peasant expropriation and the subsequent increase in the number of landless non-proletarianized peasants. Therefore, the problem of poor agrarian structures in Africa is still unresolved.
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Munro, William A. "Power, Peasants and Political Development: Reconsidering State Construction in Africa." Comparative Studies in Society and History 38, no. 1 (January 1996): 112–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500020144.

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Recent writing on political development in Africa has shown a marked tendency to de-privilege the state. We might discern three broad, related, reasons for this trend. The first is the deepening political crisis involving what Crawford Young has described as “shrinkage in the competence, credibility and probity of the state.” The second is the growing dissatisfaction among scholars with the narrow analytical focus of state-centered scholarship on state structures and elites. The third is the re-emergence of civil society as an analytical concept (sparked by political crises in Eastern Europe) and a renewed emphasis on market institutions as appropriate arbiters of social provision.Many scholars, despairing of the political and economic decline of African countries and seeking more compelling explanations, have moved the state out of the explanatory spotlight. They have stressed the fragmentation of politics, processes of economic disengagement from the realm of state control, and expanding areas of social life that fall outside of the ambit of state authority. For some, the relationship between the state and civil society has offered a more appealing focus for analysis.2 Society-centered research has even suggested that the state is not (or is no longer) the main organising principle of politics in Africa.
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O'laughlin, Bridget. "Bernstein's Puzzle: Peasants, Accumulation and Class Alliances in Africa." Journal of Agrarian Change 16, no. 3 (June 27, 2016): 390–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joac.12177.

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Peil, Margaret. "Inequality in Africa: political elites, proletariat, peasants and the poor." International Affairs 65, no. 2 (1989): 373–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2622153.

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Bigman, Laura, and E. Wayne Nafziger. "Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariat, Peasants, and the Poor." International Journal of African Historical Studies 23, no. 1 (1990): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219995.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Peasants, africa"

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A'Zami, Darius Alexander. "Citizen-peasants : modernity, international relations and the problem of difference in Tanzania." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/62143/.

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A running difficulty in African Studies (and beyond) is the need to reconcile modernity with difference, arising in attempts to account for the impact of colonialism as well as unequal international relations without lapsing into erasure of the manifold realities of African difference. Identifying the peasant vis-à-vis modernity as a salient instance of the problem, this thesis proffers a historical sociology of post-colonial Tanzania, where Julius Nyerere insisted that ‘If Marx were born in Tanzania he would have written the Arusha Declaration'. In saying so he was, in effect, pointing to the need, both programmatic and intellectual, to reconcile modernity and peasant-difference. Drawing upon international relations and the framework of uneven & combined development in particular, modernity is theorised as a process of fission whilst the peasant is cast as a protean subject thereof; the promised reconciliation can be achieved by rendering each as interactive. Building on this framework the main body of the thesis proceeds, encountering and engaging with the peasant-modernity problem along the way, to show the historical process by which a ‘citizen-peasant' social form emerged as combined development; an intellectual manoeuvre, moreover, that serves to conclude the reconciliation of ‘Marx' with ‘Arusha'. Chapters 1 and 2 establish the terrain and Chapter 3 supplies the methodological framework. Thereafter Chapter 4 sets out an account of the unevenness confronting Tanzania in the 1960s, linking that to its international relations in general and with China in particular to establish a pattern of interaction that Chapter 5 builds upon, revealing the Arusha Declaration as the starting point of a historical process from which the citizen-peasant arose, which is the key to the thesis as a whole. Chapter 6 completes the argument, pointing to the entrenchment of that form beyond its origins in the era of Nyerere's ‘African Socialism' taking the account up to the conclusion of the 20th century. Chapter 7 concludes, reflecting on the implications of the argument for the contemporary conjuncture.
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Bernard, Tanguy. "Three essays on peasant organizations in West-Africa." Clermont-Ferrand 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005CLF10002.

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Cette thèse analyse l'émergence, le fonctionnement et le rôle des Organisations Paysannes (OP) dans le développement rural en Afrique de l'Ouest, sur la base de données collectées au Sénégal et au Burkina Faso en 2002-2003. Ces organisations sont des groupes d'individus, se rassemblant pour améliorer le bien-être de leurs ménages et celui de leurs communautés. Elles se sont développées de manière importante depuis le milieu des années 1980, suite au désangagement des Etats du secteur rural, et sont maintenant présentes dans la grande majorité des villages. Cependant, malgré cette richesse organisationnelle et l'intérêt croissant des agences de développement pour les OP, la pauvreté rurale en Afrique de l'Ouest reste parmi les plus élevées du monde. Notre analyse suggère que les OP représentent un canal majeur pour atteindre les ménages pauvres ruraux, mais que leur impact sur la pauvreté est en général limité par leur manque de ressources financières. Nous montrons également que les communautés villageoises dans lesquelles les OP évoluent sont de première importance : dans les environnements caractérisés par d'importantes "normes égalitaires", les OP dont la fonction est de générer des profits pour leurs membres sont contraintes lors de leur émergence et dans leur fonctionnement. En retour, l'émergence de telles organisations influence leurs communautés en provoquant un changement institutionnel par lequel la différentiation économique et sociale des individus est rendue possible au sein même de leur communauté.
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Mohamed, Wazir. "Frustrated peasants, marginalized workers free African villages in Guyana, 1838-1885 /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.

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Sichone, Owen Ben. "Labour migration, peasant farming and rural development in Uwinamwanga." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385335.

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Kriger, Norma J. "Zimbabwe's guerrilla war : peasant voices /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35488025p.

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Jones, J. "The peasantry, the party and the state in Guine-Bissau." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234385.

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Lobban, Ryan. "The merits of the human security paradigm : a materialist account of peasant insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12221.

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Contemporary food security concerns in sub-Saharan Africa centre on the pertinence of food versus fuel forms of production. As the global energy market enters into the postfossil-fuel epoch, the demand on land for commercial biofuel and feedstock production threatens the livelihood of sub-Saharan Africa's sizeable peasant community. This paper examines the theoretical and paradigmatic attributes of the human security and food security rubric, and its pertinence in accounting for the social threats which threaten individuals within an increasingly interconnected global economic system. While the emergence of these neologisms of the critical security studies school represent a marked divergence from that of the traditional approach of understanding security threats, they remained mired in contestation due to their lack of theoretical parsimony.
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Ngonya, Karen Wanjiru. "Kongolese Peasant Christianity and Its Influence on Resistance in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century South Carolina." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250192500.

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Hårsmar, Mats. "Heavy clouds but no rain : agricultural growth theories and peasant strategies on the Mossi Plateau, Burkina Faso." Uppsala : Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/UF/lib/agraria439.pdf.

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Nkadimeng, George Tseke. "A reassessment of the 1958 Sekhukhuneland Peasant Revolt: evaluation of internal division as a cause of the uprising." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/726.

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This mini dissertation considers the internal division of the Pedi in Sekhukhuneland, which culminated in the 1958 Sekhukhune Peasant Revolt. The dissertation reveals that the fall of the Pedi kingdom in 1878, land dispossession and the implementation of the apartheid policy polarised Pedi society to a point of conflict. Though the period of study is wide in scope, this research investigates those factors which caused internal division amongst the Pedi to a point of conflict. The central focus is only those aspects that divided the Pedi . In the early years after the fall of the Pedi Kingdom the role of the native commissioners based in Sekhukhuneland, appeared to have eroded the legitimacy of Maroteng hegemony . Systems of Pedi local political expression were much affected by the immense powers of the native commissioners. The division of the Pedi kingdom and the appointment of chiefs were early signs of discontent against the authority of the native commissioners. Sekhukhuneland began to suffer from political division created by the shift in the local power base. The undermining of Maroteng hegemony by the native commissioners created a feeling of antagonism towards government policy which was contrary to the Pedi traditional practices or beliefs. That is why explicit aspects of land reforms and cattle culling in the 1930s and 1940s were vehemently opposed and hatred levelled against those who accepted the government programmes. Internal division of the Pedi nation was possible because of the heterogenous composition of society. The Pedi society is made up of loosely fragmented ethnic groups such as the Bakgatla, Batau, Bakoni, Baroka, Baphuti and Amandebele. The unity of these ethnic groups previously relied on the strength of the Maroteng ethnic group. With the collapse of the Pedi kingdom, the power of Maroteng was curtailed, resulting in individual ethnic groups gradually becoming autonomous from Maroteng authority. They were influenced by the National Party government policy of separate development. However, the study also investigates the social and political plight of these minor ethnic groups. Access to land by minor ethnic groups was an impediment towards Pedi unity and caused internal division. There was also internal division caused by the forces of modernisation and traditional practices. The impact of Christianity and the emergence of the local elite such as teachers, clerks and policemen added another dimension of polarisation. The study also examines why the institution of the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951 resulted in conflict. The government deportation of chief Morwamoche Sekhukhune to Cala in the Transkei in 1958/03/21 and the arrest of chief Phasoane Nkadimeng in 1958/05/16 resulted in open conflict between government supporters dubbed “Marenjara” and resisters called the “Makhuduthamaga”. Government action was viewed as the final onslaught of what was once regarded as the Pedi pride. The study will also look at why the arrest of chief Phasoane Nkadimeng had such political impact to set Sekhukhuneland on fire. Attention is also paid to the involvement of the migrant workers who played a pivotal and crucial role in the period preceding the uprising. It was in that uprising that the Pedi migrant workers put to test the revolutionary theories acquired through membership of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP). The core leaders of the Pedi migrant workers’ organisation, Fetakgomo, were also active members of both the ANC and the SACP. The character of the 1958 uprising is explained by the internal division of the Pedi which had its roots in the fall of the Pedi kingdom in 1880.
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Books on the topic "Peasants, africa"

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Dossey, Leslie. Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

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Nafziger, E. Wayne. Inequality in Africa: Political elites, proletariat, peasants, and the poor. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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Green, Reginald Herbold. Degradation of rural development: Development of rural degradation : change and peasants in Sub-Saharan Africa. Brighton, England: Institute of Development Studies, 1989.

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Bernal, Victoria. Cultivating workers: Peasants and capitalism in a Sudanese village. New york: Columbia University Press, 1991.

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Isaacman, Allen F. Cotton is the mother of poverty: Peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961. Portsmouth, N.H: Heinemann, 1996.

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Timberlake, Lloyd. Africa in crisis. London: Earthscan, 1985.

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Bunker, Stephen G. Peasants against the state: The politics of market control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

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Bjørkelo, Anders J. Prelude to the Mahdiyya: Peasants and traders in the Shendi region, 1821-1885. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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1947-, Cooper Frederick, ed. Confronting historical paradigms: Peasants, labor, and the capitalist world system in Africa and Latin America. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.

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Mafeje, Archie. The agrarian question, access to land, and peasant responses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Peasants, africa"

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Cohen, Robin. "Peasants to Workers and Peasant-Workers in Africa." In Contested Domains, 73–90. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032651552-5.

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Harrison, Graham. "Peasants, Politics and the Struggle for Development." In Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa, 23–49. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230502826_2.

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Monjane, Boaventura. "Agrarian Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, and the Political Reactions from below in Southern Africa." In Edition Politik, 219–38. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839462096-014.

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Southern Africa has a very peculiar past. It is a region where settler colonialism used land and agriculture as instruments of domination and oppression. The legacy of this past is visible. Agrarian capital is instrumentalizing this past and advancing agrarian neoliberalism through international financial institutions and other actors. But this is not happening without resistance. Agrarian movements are among those that play an important role in resisting what I call agrarianauthoritarianism,whilepointingthewaytoemancipatorycounter- responses.Advancing with unprecedented alacrity throughout Southern Africa, agrarian authoritarianism is combined with the process of financialization of the land and agricultural sector and instrumentalization of state institutions and policies to foster frameworks that benefit capital while expropriating, expelling, and exploiting peasants and other small-scale food producers. This is the new phase of agrarian capitalism, manifesting itself with varying degrees of authoritarianism, especially through the imposition of neoliberal policies. Looking at Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, this chapter discusses the manifestation of agrarian authoritarianism in SouthernAfricaandexploresthewaysinwhichthreeagrarianmovementsinthosecountries , namely the National Union of Peasants in Mozambique (UNAC), the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers' Forum (ZIMSOFF), and South Africa's Right to Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign (FSC) forge emancipatory initiatives to counter the authoritarian wave and challenge agrarian authoritarianism in the region.
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Campbell, John. "Disastrous Pasts, Sustainable Futures? Land and Peasants in Ethiopia." In Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa, 187–207. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24257-3_10.

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Amin, Samir. "Globalization and the Agrarian Question: Peasants’ Conflicts in Africa and Asia." In Globalization and the Third World, 165–81. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230502567_10.

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Morgan, W. B. "Peasant agriculture in tropical Africa." In Environment and Land Use in Africa, 241–72. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003383925-11.

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Hamasi, Linnet. "The Peasantry and Politics in Africa." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development, 405–18. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95232-8_24.

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Ndhlovu, Emmanuel, and David Mhlanga. "Implications of Sino-African Partnerships for Peasant Natural Resource Access, Ownership, and Utilization in Africa." In Post-Independence Development in Africa, 301–20. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30541-2_17.

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Bryceson, Deborah Fahy. "2. African Peasants’ Centrality and Marginality: Rural Labour Transformations." In Disappearing Peasantries?, 37–63. Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom: Practical Action Publishing, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780440118.002.

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Buijtenhuijs, Robert. "6. Peasant Wars in Africa: Gone With the Wind?" In Disappearing Peasantries?, 112–22. Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom: Practical Action Publishing, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780440118.006.

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