Imperialism Race and Resistance Africa and Britain 1919
Britain''s imperial hinterland 55 At the heart of the colonial project in Africa was the management and control of labour as Africa''s ''chief asset''18 In West Africa this was muted by the imperial commitment to the protection of native land rights and the encouragement of peasant was no land alienation in Nigeria but according to Hailey 1956 5 per cent of the Gold Coast was under mining