The African poor : a history /

This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated for labo...

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Main Author: Iliffe, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Series:African studies series ; 58.
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