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Ethiopia and the Horn, 1920 - 1930
How the great expansion [in the number] of coffee exporters was achieved
[in Ethiopia] is one of the many questions of internal economic change
that call for research. As late as 1930, only 10pc of exports from the
eastern plateaux came from the area of the biggest European plantations
leased at the end of Menelik's reign. Elsewhere, wage labour was
negligible, except on the railway where Ethiopians took over all jobs
other than in management and supervision. |