Download or read book Modes of Production in Africa written by Donald Crummey and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1981-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What form does social inequality take without classes? How does the ecology of an area, in particular the Zaire basin, interact with social organization? What forms of production existed in different areas? What were the effects of mercantile capitalism on tribal production? These questions and more are tackled with a view to increasing our understanding of industrial development in precolonial Africa.