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This chapter continues to track the relationship which was previously suggested between the exploitation of agricultural resources and the accumulation of chiefly authority. As chapter three made clear the huge investment in agriculture that came with the so-called “Second Colonial Occupation” increased the material base from which chiefs, and other African elites, could potentially draw authority. Native Authorities were positioned as the perfect people to enforce the new developmental agenda of the colonial state, with its emphasis on conservation and increased agricultural production. In fact agricultural policies and forums for the discussion of agrarian change formed the main agenda of interaction between the government and chiefs, as well as between the chiefs and their people from the 1930s onwards. These reforms and interactions, this chapter will argue, enabled Timothy Chawinga new ways of extracting and increasing his power in the local context.
