How Britain underdeveloped Bechuanaland Protectorate: a brief critique of the political economy of colonial Botswana/ created by Monageng Mogalakwe

By:

Mogalakwe, Monageng [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Africa development ; Volume 31, number 1Dakar: CODESRIA, 2006Content type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISSN:

08503907

Subject(s):

Protectorates -- Colonial influence -- Botswana

LOC classification:

HC501 AFR

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Abstract: Britain declared Bechuanaland a ‘protectorate’ in 1885 in a move largely driven by military strategic considerations rather than by the availability of economic resources. This can give the impression that in Botswana the process of eco- nomic underdevelopment, that is often associated with colonialism, never took place in this British ‘protectorate’. This article reveals that even in the so-called ‘protectorate’, the British colonial state policies subverted indigenous economic interests and stifled opportunities for indigenous private capital accumulation, while actively promoting the economic interests of a small white settler capitalist class.

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Britain declared Bechuanaland a ‘protectorate’ in 1885 in a move largely driven by military strategic considerations rather than by the availability of economic resources. This can give the impression that in Botswana the process of eco- nomic underdevelopment, that is often associated with colonialism, never took place in this British ‘protectorate’. This article reveals that even in the so-called ‘protectorate’, the British colonial state policies subverted indigenous economic interests and stifled opportunities for indigenous private capital accumulation, while actively promoting the economic interests of a small white settler capitalist class.

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