Joseph Chamberlain, constructive imperialism, and colonial development -- Negotiating development: Nigeria's 1945 development plan -- The agrarian bias: Mackiean policy of agricultural development in Nigeria -- Late colonial agricultural development: the Mokwa scheme -- The legacies of British...

Recent reflections on development policy have tried to eliminate the weak points in the economically oriented development theories which have dominated development planning up to now, and the traditional modernisation theories complementary to them. The propagation of strategies geared towards...