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The African Poor: A History (African Studies)

By John Iliffe

Book information

Year
1987
ISBN
9780521344159, 9780511584121, 0521344158, 0521348773, 0511584121, 9780521348775
LCC
HC800.Z9 P625 1987
Open Library ID
OL18368613M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10317432 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
400\397
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is a book for all readers concerned with the future of Africa. The first history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa, it begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. It provides a historical context for poverty in Africa--both the permanent poverty of the dispossessed and the temporary poverty of famine victims. Its thesis, modelled on the histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been incapacitated for labor, bereft of support, and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. Dr. Iliffe investigates what it is like to be poor, how the poor seek to help themselves, how their families help, and how charitable and governmental institutions provide for them.

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