The African Poor

A History

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Paperback | 9 May 1988

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This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated for labour, bereft of support, and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. There has emerged the distinct poverty of those excluded from access to productive resources. Natural disaster brought widespread destitution, but as a cause of mass mortality it was almost eliminated in the colonial era, to return to those areas where drought has been compounded by administrative breakdown. Professor Iliffe investigates what it was like to be poor, how the poor sought to help themselves, how their counterparts in other continents live. The poor live as people, rather than merely parading as statistics. Famines have alerted the world to African poverty, but the problem itself is ancient. Its prevailing forms will not be understood until those of earlier periods are revealed and trends of change are identified. This is a book for all concerned with the future of Africa, as well as for students of poverty elsewhere.

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'This is history which is in empathy with Africa which seeks, and finds, the positive elements in the suffering of the poor.' The Times Higher Educational Supplement 'This pioneering book is both comprehensive and also eminently fair: whether in dealing with pre-colonial, colonial, or contemporary conditions, Iliffe presents a splendidly balanced and unprejudiced view always meticulously supported by the factual evidence.' American Anthropologist

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Poverty & Unemployment History Regional & National History African History Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Social Groups General & World History

Preface
The comparative history of the poor
Christian Ethiopia
The Islamic tradition
Poverty and pastoralism
Yoruba and Igbo
Early European initiatives
Poverty in South Africa, 1886-1948
Rural poverty in colonial Africa
Urban poverty in tropical Africa
The care of the poor in colonial Africa
Leprosy
The growth of poverty in independent Africa
The transformation of poverty in southern Africa
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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