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JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY
Volume 48, Issue 5, Pages 914-933Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2020.1816624
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Colonial medicine; nutrition; infant formula; Nestlé World Health Organization; Food and Agriculture Organization; Commission for Technical Cooperation; trans-imperial history; public-private cooperation
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Infant nutrition was key field of imperial health policies in Africa from the inter-war period to the end of colonisation. Although this phenomenon has been documented on the scale of some African countries, this article argues that infant nutrition stood as a particularly crucial field of trans-imperial exchanges on the scale of the African continent. It further demonstrates that trans-imperial rivalries and collaborations in Africa created a propitious political, institutional, and scientific context for business participation in infant nutrition. The article illustrates these phenomena by examining colonial, trans-imperial, international, and public-private nutrition initiatives in Africa, focusing especially on the Commission for Technical Cooperation in Africa (CTCA) and the food company Nestle.
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