Publisher's Synopsis
This book examines the initial banana exports from Africa during the inter-war period. It is part of a wider research programme on the history of Tropical Africa?s export agriculture. - - Around 1930 refrigerated banana carriers started to make regular journeys between Africa and Europe. This development led to a rapid expansion of fresh banana exports from a few African countries. The banana projects were colonial in the sense that the bananas were shipped from a colony to the mother country. The French market was supplied with bananas from French Guinea, Ivory Coast and French Cameroon. The German market was supplied by the Southern Cameroon?s (part of Nigeria and formerly a part of German Kamerun). Italian Somaliland supplied the Italian Market. The report also reviews the similarities and differences of these projects.
