Capitalism and peasant agriculture in Africa.

The inability of capitalism to destroy pre-capitalist relations of production in African agriculture, or its co-existence with such relations of production has led to various theories purporting to explain the manner in which pre-capitalist nodes of production are "usually" incorporated into, or subordinated to the capitalist mode of production bring the early phases of capitalist development.

Paper prepared for The Mawazo workshop on The Agrarian Question in Developing Countries, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda February 10 - 12, 1984.