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This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. In the pre-colonial era what were the sources of order in societies without states? And what were the origins of 'traditional' states in Africa? In the colonial period, what caused the divergent patterns of agricultural development? And what were the issues that drove the peasantry into the rebellions which brought an end to colonial rule? Since independence what has been the fate of the African peasantry? What has been the content of the agricultural policies adopted by the governments of Africa? And how can these policies be accounted for? In answering these questions, the book explores various forms of explanation and advances a form of political economy based upon rational-choice analysis.

Third World: economic development problems --- Africa --- Economic conditions. --- Agriculture --- -Agriculture and state --- -Nuer (African people) --- Peasantry --- -Peasantry --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Naadh (African people) --- Naath (African people) --- Nuer (African tribe) --- Ethnology --- Nilotic peoples --- Agrarian question --- Agricultural policy --- State and agriculture --- Economic policy --- Land reform --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Economic aspects --- -Government policy --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Rural conditions. --- Agriculture and state --- Nuer (African people) --- Peasants --- Nuer (African people). --- -Economic aspects --- -Africa --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Africa - Economic conditions.