Capitalism and ground rent the domination of capitalism over agriculture in tropical Africa

Abstract

The theme of the conference, of which some of the best papers are published here, was "The development of agrarian capitalism in tropical Africa." The researches in preparation for this conference, like the discussions at the conference itself, pointedly showed the need to interpret the theme in its widest sense and to speak of the domination of the capitalist mode of production over agriculture as mush as the development of agrarian capitalism in the strict sense