非洲殖民地的政府干预与经济作物生产的兴起

Government Intervention and the Rising of Cash Crop Production in Colonial Africa

殖民地政府极力推动非洲殖民地经济作物生产。不过,殖民地经济作物生产能否成功,不只是殖民地干预的结果,更与这一经济作物生产是否迎合非洲当地社会的利益诉求密切相关。在非洲小农经济占主导地位的西非殖民地,经济作物生产的兴起主要是非洲农民主动性的结果,例如加纳的可可经济。在东非和南部非洲殖民地,尽管经济作物生产的出现离不开殖民政府干预,但是这一经济作物生产能否取得成功同样也与当地非洲农民能动性密切相关。

European colonizers sought to facilitate cash crop production in African colonies.However,the rising of cash crop production in the African colonies were not the result of colonial policies,but depended on whether this cash crop production was suitable to local interest or not.In African peasants-dominated west African colonies,cash crop production was the outcome of African agency,ie.the cocoa economy in Gold Coast.In East and Southern African colonies,which have white settler communities,even though colonial intervention had impacts on cash crop production,the agencies of African peasants also had significant impacts on the outcome of cash crop production.