Negotiating Development: African Farmers and Colonial Experts at the Office du Niger, 1920-1960 FROM THE PUBLISHER
By showing the influence African farmers had on French planners in colonial Mali, this study raises questions about the authority to determine development policy that much recent scholarship has attributed to large Western institutions.
SYNOPSIS
By showing the influence African farmers had on French planners in colonial Mali, this study raises questions about the authority to determine development policy that much recent scholarship has attributed to large Western institutions.