Book
The Danagla traders of northern Sudan: rural capitalism and agricultural development
Ithaca Press • (10) • Published In 1985 • Pages: 105
By: Omer, El Haj Abdalla Bilal.
Abstract
This study of social change prompted by development programs in a rural Sudanese village focuses on the gradual disintegration of extended households and localized kinship groups that, respectively, had been the basic economic and landholding units of traditional Danagla society. Beginning in the final decades of British colonial administration, the introduction of small, motorized pumps and publicly-funded irrigation projects attracted profit-seeking investors, including a network of relatively wealthy town-based traders and village shopkeepers. This led to increased commercialization of traditional subsistence agriculture, either through direct investment by lease-holding private enterprises or through the growth of finance and credit agencies enabling the purchase of water pumps and expanded cultivation of market crops.
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Northern Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field Date
- 1974-1975; 1976-1977
- Coverage Date
- 1898-1977
- Coverage Place
- eastern Northern state, Sudan
- Notes
- El Haj Bilal Omer
- bibliographical references (p. 102-105)
- LCCN
- 85205478
- LCSH
- Danagla (African people)--Economic conditions
- Danagla (African people)--Social conditions
- Agriculture--Sudan--Dunqulah Region
- Dunqulah Region (Sudan)--Rural conditions