Peasants and plantations in the Mulanje and Thyolo Districts of southern Malawi, 1891-1951

dc.contributor.author	Boeder, R. B.
dc.date.accessioned	2010-08-13T06:17:20Z
dc.date.available	2010-08-13T06:17:20Z
dc.date.issued	1982-06-21
dc.description	African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 21st June, 1982. Not to be quoted without the Author's permission.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Although land and labour have been major themes in Malawi's colonial history, class formation and the development of the tea industry in the country's Southern Region have received very little attention. This paper is a first attempt to begin a discussion of these issues by focussing on the Lomwe people who immigrated into Malwi from Mozambique after 1890. Entering the country as refugees, most Lomwe had to accept servility under Yao and Mang'an j a headmen or as tenants on estates. As their numbers grew they formed their own villages on Crown Land and became a peasantry producing cotton and tobacco as cash crops and maize for sale to Lomwe migrants employed as seasonal labourers on the estates. The tea plantations themselves were inefficient and poorly managed, depending largely on the exploitation of their workers for profits.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8427
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	African Studies Institute;ISS 29
dc.subject	Malawi	en_US
dc.title	Peasants and plantations in the Mulanje and Thyolo Districts of southern Malawi, 1891-1951	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US