The African Bourgeoisie : : Capitalist Development in Nigeria, Kenya, and the Ivory Coast / / ed. by Paul M. Lubeck.

Evaluates the role of indigenous capitalism and capitalists in Black Africa's most successful capitalist states: Nigeria, Kenya, and the Ivory Coast.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1987
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (315 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1 Issues, Theories, and Method
  • 1 The African Bourgeoisie: Debates, Methods, and Units of Analysis
  • 2 The Role of a National Bourgeoisie in the Current Phase of Capitalist Development: Some Reflections
  • Part 2 African Capitalist Classes in Historical Perspective
  • Introduction
  • 3 Peasantry, Merchant Capital, and the Colonial State: Class in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1945
  • 4 When the Knees Began Wearing the Hat: Commercial Agriculture and Social Transformation in Assikasso, the Ivory Coast, 1880-1940
  • 5 Indigenous Capitalism in Postcolonial Kenya
  • Part 3 The Agrarian Origins of African Capitalist Classes
  • Introduction
  • 6 Green Capitalism in Nigeria
  • 7 The Development of Agrarian Capitalist Classes in the Ivory Coast, 1945-1975
  • Part 4 The Role of the State in African Capitalism
  • Introduction
  • 8 Indigenization and the Nigerian Bourgeoisie: Dependent Development in an African Context
  • 9 The State and Capitalist Development in the Ivory Coast
  • Part 5 The Transition to Industrial Capitalism
  • Introduction
  • 10 State Capital, Capitalist Development, and Class Formation in Nigeria
  • 11 Industry and Capitalism in Kenya: Contributions to a Debate
  • 12 The Future of the African Bourgeoisie
  • Bibliography
  • The Contributors
  • Index