Capitalism and peasant agriculture in Africa.

Paper prepared for The Mawazo workshop on The Agrarian Question in Developing Countries, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda February 10 - 12, 1984.The inability of capitalism to destroy pre-capitalist relations of production in African agriculture, or its co-existence with such relations of production has led to various theories purporting to explain the manner in which pre-capitalist nodes of production are "usually" incorporated into, or subordinated to the capitalist mode of production bring the early phases of capitalist development