Abstract
During the colonial period in Africa, communal labor was a type of, so-called, “traditional” unpaid labor used in all of the colonies in Africa. It was not construed as forced labor but a remnant of tradition. Though justified as an innocuous vestige of African custom by the colonial administration and even the International Labour Organization, communal labor functioned in the various African colonies as merely another type of forced labor. This chapter introduces the reader to the core concepts surrounding the issue of communal labor in colonial Kenya and also situates this study of communal forced labor within the wider debates and trends in African labor history and colonial history.
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