Peasants into Tribesmen: Cash Crop Agriculture, Missionary Publishing, and the Politicization of African Ethnicities

• In Event: Ethnic Politics in Africa

Brief Overview

This paper shows how two specific aspects of European colonialism influenced the uneven politicization of ethnic cleavages in Sub-Saharan Africa: The spread of colonial cash crop agriculture and missionary standardization of African languages.

Authors

• Yannick Immanuel Pengl, ETH Zurich

• Philip Roessler, College of William and Mary