Various scholars have questioned the often-stated migrant labour-taxation causal nexus. They have rejected the overworked stereotype that Africans entered labour service to pay taxes, obtain more livestock and marry more wives. This paper argues that migration as a historical aspect of social change, because migrant labourers made deliberate economic choices on whe...

Various scholars have questioned the often-stated migrant labour-taxation causal nexus. They have rejected the overworked stereotype that Africans entered labour service to pay taxes, obtain more livestock and marry more wives. This paper argues that migration as a historical aspect of social change, because migrant labourers made deliberate economic choices on whe...