Capitalism and hunger in Northern Nigeria

Bibliographic Data

ID11904048
AuthorsBob Shenton (corresponding author), Mike Watts (0000-0002-8044-5418)
Year1979
Volume6
Issue15-16
Publication date1979-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of African Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03056247908703396
OpenAlexW1986902785
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited4

The Hausa areas of the Sudanic belt of West Africa certainly experienced food shortages, due mainly to weather or pestilence, but had a variety of social mechanisms to reduce their impact on any one family. Many of these mechanisms were undermined in the various transitions that resulted from colonialism without other measures to replace them. From this experience the meaning of ‘crisis’ in peripheral capitalist societies is explored as some combination of the ‘economic’ crisis of overproduction of commodities in advanced capitalism with the crisis of underproduction of use values characteristic of pre‐capitalist society

Biology · Capitalism · Colonialism · Development economics · Ecological crisis · Economic shortage · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Market economy · Meaning (existential · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Economic Theory and Policy · Ecology