Improvising Planned Development on the Gezira Plain, Sudan, by Maurits W. Ertsen

By Maurits W. Ertsen

the common picture of the Gezira Scheme, the large-scale irrigation scheme all started lower than British colonial rule in Sudan, is of a centrally deliberate attempt through a significant colonial strength controlling tenants and cotton construction. although, any idea(l)s of deliberate irrigation and revenue in Gezira needed to be discovered by way of African farmers and ecu officers, who either had their very own agendas. tasks like Gezira are top understood when it comes to non-stop negotiations. This ebook rewrites Gezira’s background by way of colonial keep an eye on, farmers’ activities and resistance, and the wider improvement debate.

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