Prof XN Iraki illustrates the introduction of cash crops in Kenya by the British colonialists that disrupted the social, economic traditional way of farming in Africa. He reveals the unique pattern of growth of towns along the railway line. He also narrates how the colonialists brainwashed the Africans into working on their farms in return for basic food and minimal wages thereby neglecting their own subsistence farming. He further explains the economic effects of juggling between large scale and small scale cash crop farming to the locals. He laments the slow growth of the local manufacturing industry due to exporting of the cash crops. Prof Iraki cites the African governments’ negligence in funding the agricultural sectors. Prof XN Iraki, of the University of Nairobi – Kenya In the Faculty of Businesses and Management Sciences. He has many publications to his name and is a columnist in various National Newspapers