1Diversity in Rural African Economic Activities: A Case Study of Cattle and Modernization in Swaziland, 1930s to 1980s.

Unfamiliar socio-economic structures created interpretation problems to scholars from different places of origin. Here incomplete conclusions were made on societies that were studied. Thus if Doran, Low and Kemp (Doran, Low & Kemp, 1979:41-9) perceived Swazi activities as static it was because of cultural differences. After 1945 more dynamic developments occurred than perceived by Doran, Low and Kemp (Doran, Low & Kemp, 1979:41-9). Swazi cattle played a dynamic economic role which overshadowed social ones when market forces became stronger. Economic diversities occurred in agriculture. Ox-power featured in transportation. The market economy ushered in investments in cotton which modernized the Swazi