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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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A 'fiscal madness' Hut Tax in Northern Mozambique (1925-1946)
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84. Rethinking Colonial Governance in sub-Saharan Africa: comparative perspectives on local actors, policies and practices (1915-1965)
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| Paper ID | 756 |
| Author(s) |
Santos, Maciel
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | Hut tax payment was usually the first sign of the colonial order in Portuguese african territories. In general, all colonial administrations depended heavily on this income, which for most traditional societies represented a completely different way of showing political legitimacy. For many of these societies it represented the compelled entry in a monetary economy as a disrupting social novelty.
Collecting taxes was in this context a difficult and sometimes almost impossible task imposed on the inferior levels of colonial administration. This paper focus on the clashing interests among colonial and traditional African authorities but also on the conflicts among the different strata of the colonial officers in northern Mozambique in the 1930's.
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