TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mogalakwe,Monageng
TI  - How Britain underdeveloped Bechuanaland Protectorate: a brief critique of the political economy of colonial Botswana
SN  - 08503907
AV  - HC501 AFR 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Dakar
PB  - CODESRIA
KW  - Protectorates
KW  - Colonial influence
KW  - Botswana
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v31i1.22251
ER  -