Political Science 3205F/G Chapter Notes -Bargaining
27 Jan 2013
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Agriculture was the primary occupation of africans and the basic unit of productions was the extended family. Within the family, there was specialization of labour and sexual division of occupation. What a person grew on the land was his own free decision to make. Centuries ago when africa was sparsely populated, unoccupied land belonged to no one. Family pot each extended family had a fund into which members made contributions according to their means. Profit made was private property; it was for the traders to keep not for the chiefs or rulers to expropriate. It was physically impossible for one homestead to produce everything it needed on the farm. Some goods produced by the natives were traded or sold in markets. Economic activity in african markets was not controlled by political authorities. Active supervision that existed and still exists concerns the butchering of meat.
