Course Description & Objectives:
- Theories of Imperialism, development and underdevelopment
- Establishment of colonial economic systems in Africa, Colonial economic growth and development (peasant and plantation economic systems, industrialization, labor policies, taxation)
- Operation of the colonial economic system (cash crop production, import and export marketing, banking)
- The socio-political superstructure (Social services during the colonial period)
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