ABSTRACT
BEFORE MIE ~ O C E E D to a discussion of the three remaining areas of Subsaharan Africa, we may examine some of the implications of our broad twofold division of these areas-the pastoral east and the agricultural west-for adjustment to the post-European scene. This is important, because it is seldom realized to what extent the differences between the cultures of the pastoralists and the agriculturalists were critical in influencing the kind of adaptation they had to make to European contact and control. Thus the relative ease with which, in the agricultural western part of the continent, Africans took over the growing of cash crops may be contrasted with the difficulty that colonial officials experienced in eastern Africa and the eastern Sudan in inducing the cattle-keeping peoples to accept "economic" as against subsistence farming, or to adopt methods of breeding and care calculated to improve the quality of their livestock.
