Article ID: CBB754116905

Await the Jarga: Cattle, Disease, and Livestock Development in Colonial Gambia (2016)

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As veterinary efforts reduced outbreaks of rinderpest in the Gambia, the colonial government sought to capitalize on an increased rural cattle population. One idea was to build a boat—the Jarga—to ship cattle downriver to the capital. This article recounts that venture. Whereas attaining knowledge of livestock disease ecology in the region was rather conducive to British expertise, livestock marketing proved otherwise. Farmers' practices may have, at times, informed colonial agricultural practice in Africa, but this repositioning of authority did not extend to matters of local economics. Ultimately, a refusal to defer to local relations of exchange spoiled the colonial effort at livestock development in the Gambia.

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Authors & Contributors
Anderson, Warwick H.
Bittermann, Rusty
McVety, Amanda Kay
Van Roosbroeck, Filip
Karl Bruno
McCallum, Margaret
Concepts
Veterinary medicine
Cattle
Agriculture
Disease and diseases
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
18th century
Ancient
20th century, late
Places
Australia
West Africa
Africa
French Equatorial Africa
Gambia
Flanders
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