AFRI 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nnamdi Azikiwe, British West Africa, Harry Thuku
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The british were interested in uganda because they were interested in the lake victoria region. The british cotton growing association dominated uganda. Kenya is another place where you have settlers. African peasants were discouraged from producing cash crop goods; only the settlers were to produce cash crops. Africans in kenya were prohibited from making arabian coffee which was the most profitable cash crop. The french were forcing people to produce cotton. African peasants were much more efficient in producing. In sudan djazzira island, there was a lot of cottons production. It pushes africans to produce things they don"t need/eat for exports. 1931,famine killed a lot of the population in niger. Africans were not allowed to have anything to do with the mining. Nigeria was the 4th largest producer of tin. Richest in terms i of mining comes out of central africa ; katanga/shaba. The british southern companies controlled the mining in industry in central.
