| The African Poor: A History Contributor(s): Iliffe, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521348773 ISBN-13: 9780521348775 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1987 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - History | Africa - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 305.562 |
| LCCN: 87014622 |
| Series: African Studies Series |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.91" W x 8.88" (1.09 lbs) 400 pages |