In contributing our modest quota to the seminar on the Emergence of Agrarian Capitalism in Africa South of the Sahara, we have chosen to deal with an experiment which is quite peculiar to Dahomey the agricultural and ...

Agrarian capitalism had existed in rural Nigerian Hausa land long before the arrival of the British colonialists, and during the brief colonial period 1902-3 to 1960 agrarian conditions remained basically unchanged, except ...