This dynamic, established during the colonial era, has persisted into the modern age ... farmers make it difficult for African agricultural products to compete in international markets. For instance, ...

Similarly, the Yoruba in West Africa maintained a governance structure that balanced power among rulers, councils, and religious institutions. Colonial powers systematically dismantled these ... The ...

In this changed cultural preference, the cultural gap between Southerners and Northerners in Nigeria began to close.

Land ownership remains one of the most fiercely contested debates well into 30 years of South Africa’s democracy, says the ...

Cotton farmers in Maharashtra are seeking major changes in terms of technology, and increased allocations in the Union budget to fix the problem of falling productivity. Finance Minister Nirmala ...

Denied independence in 1975 after former colonial power Spain carved up the territory between Morocco and Mauritania, Western Sahara is known as Africa’s last colony — that is, what the United Nations ...

and Cotton made in Africa (CmiA). It will go one step further. “In future, independent auditors will regularly check whether the transparency requirements of the new standard are reliably adhered to ...

To aid in navigation:” the political economy of cotton in the Portuguese Empire. In 1790, British envoy Robert Walpole asked ...

If cotton had been selling for $2 a pound when I was a kid, my whole life might have changed. One of my first memories is picking cotton with my mom in a field beside the frame house she and dad ...