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The state and rural class formation in Ghana

Monographs from the African Studies Centre, Leiden

First published in 1986 by KP I Limited

This edition published 2015 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

711 Third Avenue New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Set in 10 on 12 point Times by Fontwise

African Studies Centre, Leiden 1986

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Konings, Piet.

The state and rural class formation in Ghana.

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. Social classes--Ghana. 2. Ghana-Rural conditions. 3. Agriculture and
state--Ghana. 4. Cocoa trade--Ghana. 5. Rice trade--Ghana. I. Ravell, James J.

II. Title.

HN832.Z9S65 1986 305.509667 8528109

British Library CIP Data also available

ISBN 13: 978-0-7103-0117-8 (hbk)

Contents

1. ii

Guide

ADB	Agricultural Development Bank
AFRC	Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (4 June-23 September 1979)
BTC	Builsa Traditional Council
BYA	Builsa Youth Association
Cedi (used to be on a par with the American dollar; its official value between 1972 and 1978 was equal to about US $ 0.78. In 1978 the cedi was once again devalued by 58.2% in terms of the dollar)
CMB	Cocoa Marketing Board
CPP	Convention Peoples Party (19491966)
FPC	Food Production Corporation
GAWU	General Agricultural Workers Union
GGADP	Ghanaian-German Agricultural Development Project
GIHOC	Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation
GNFU	Ghana National Farmers Union
GNRC	Ghana National Reconstruction Corps
GTUC	Ghana Trades Union Congress
IBRD	International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
IDA	Irrigation Development Authority
IMF	International Monetary Fund
NIB	National Investment Bank
NLC	National Liberation Council (19661969)
NTs	Northern Territories (colonial name of Northern Ghana)
OFI	Operation Feed Your Industries
OFY	Operation Feed Yourself
OGL	Open General Licence
PBA	Produce Buying Agency
PBD	Produce Buying Division
PNDC	Provisional National Defence Council
PNP	Peoples National Party (19791981)
PP	Progress Party (19691972)
SMC	Supreme Military Council (19751979)
UAC	United African Company
UGFC	United Ghana Farmers Council
UGFCC	United Ghana Farmers Co-operative Council
UP	United Party
URADEP	Upper Regional Agricultural Development Project URDECO Upper Regional Development Corporation

Maps

This book could not have been completed without the generous contribution of a number of persons who not only provided basic information but also assisted me in various ways in preparing and carrying out my research and in improving the text.

It is not possible for me to mention by name all the people in Ghana who helped to make this study possible, but the evidence of the trust and co-operation of a substantial section of the rural population can be found throughout the book. I would, however, like to single out a few individuals to whom I owe an especial debt of gratitude: my research assistants, Alphonsus Abavari, Ninfaah Sapato, Martin Akannuemenema, and Thomas Owusuansah; Freek Schiphorst, at the time a post-graduate student at the University of Amsterdam, who made an in-depth study of Zaare, one of the villages affected by the Vea Irrigation Project, and who worked closely with me; and my friends and former colleagues at the University of Ghana, Legon: in particular Emmanuel Hansen, Eboe Hutchful, Andra Thakur, Hetty and Albert Smit, and Paul Benell, who were all a continuous source of inspiration to me and who made my stay on the university campus as pleasant as possible.

In the course of my research I benefited from the hospitality, advice and assistance of various institutions in Ghana: the University of Ghana awarded me a research fellowship in the Department of Sociology and provided me with accommodation and research facilities; the Ghana National Archives readily gave me access to relevant archival sources in Accra, Sunyani, and Tamale; the Ghana Trades Union Congress, the Labour Department, the Irrigation Development Authority, the Cocoa Marketing Board, the Lands Department, the Regional Administration of the Upper Region and Brong-Ahafo Region, and the District and Traditional Councils in the areas of my fieldwork supplied vital information and rendered valuable assistance; and, lastly, the Catholic Mission, especially the Society of African Missions in South Ghana and the White Fathers in North Ghana, was unstinting in its support.

I would like, further, to express my deep gratitude to the African Studies Centre at Leiden in the Netherlands not only for financing the entire project but also for providing the excellent conditions under which I was able to write up the fieldwork data. I am particularly indebted to Gerrit Grootenhuis, Managing Director, for his wise counsel and constant encouragement; to Joop Nijssen, Administrator, for his smooth handling of the financial and administrative aspects of my research; and to my colleagues in the Department of Political Science and History for a stimulating intellectual ambience notably Wim van Binsbergen and Rob Buijtenhuijs who have always spurred me on with sound advice and challenging criticism both as regards the content and the organization of the manuscript.

Over the past few years, I have also profited from valuable comments on parts, or the whole, of the manuscript made by friends and specialists in the field covered by my study. While exonerating them from sharing any responsibility for the un-doubted shortcomings of this book, I would very much like to thank here in particular Henry Bernstein, Wim van Binsbergen, Rob Buijtenhuijs, John Griffiths, Gerrit Grootenhuis, Richard Jeffries, Paul Lumsden, Freek Schiphorst, Hans Schoenmakers, Rdiger Schott, and Peter Skalmk.

Finally, I am most grateful to James J. Ravell for his painstaking work of improving upon the original English text, editing the book as a whole, and of successfully resolving the problems of my overly convoluted style.

Africanists are nowadays devoting increasing attention to the role of the state both colonial and post-colonial in the process of class formation in African societies. The present study of the role of the state in the process of rural class formation in Ghana can be viewed as both an expression of the current interest in, and an addition to the growing body of literature on, this subject.

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