ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to analyse the impact of trade with the advanced capitalist economies on the growth of the domestic market in Africa. The chapter will focus on the colonial period. The central argument is that trade in this period had effects which were extraordinarily far reaching. These widespread and dynamic effects arose because of the intimate connection between the growth of export production, the development of domestic markets-for consumer goods, means of production and labour power-and the development of the productive forces.
