“I think very highly of this book … I think it will be highly cited and important, partly because there has been so little economic history of Lesotho but also because of the quality of the scholarship.” • Colin Hoag, Smith College

This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa (in colonial Basutoland, then Lesotho) and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce. Although the colonial and post-colonial periods were unfavourable to the Basotho, they have, before and after colonial rule, launched impressive commercial initiatives of their own, which bring hope for greater development and freedom in their struggle for economic independence.

Series: Volume 8, The Human Economy

Subject: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History

Area: Africa

LC: HC920 .M34 2021

BISAC: BUS000000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/General; HIS001040 HISTORY/Africa/South/General; POL023000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Political Economy