Part 1. Introduction ; African roads to prosperity: people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations / Akinyinka Akinyoade and Jan-Bart Gewald Roads to prosperity: social zones of transit / Amisah Zenabu Bakuri Roads to prosperity: reflections about a concept / Ton Dietz Part 2. Zones of transit ; Wenela, Katima Mulilo, a zone of transit in Barotseland: the development of a holding zone for migrants on the extreme frontier of the South African empire / Jan-Bart Gewald 'Trapped' in the north: southern migrants in northern Nigeria, 1908-1970s / Shehu Tijjani Yusuf Migration and competition around commercial spaces: the case of Songhay migrants at the Kumasi central market, Ghana 1930-1948 / Isaie Dougnon Resettlement in Zimbabwe: final destination from the zones of transition? / Dr Marleen Dekker Part 3. Zones of transference ; A romantic zone of transference? Botswana, Ghanaian migrants and marital social mobility / Rijk van Dijk The opportunities of the margin: the Kapsiki Smith and his road to prosperity / Walter van Beek Migrants' assessment of prospects in migration: a case study of conservancy labourers in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana / Augustine Tanle, Benjamin Kofi Nyarko and Akinyinka Akinyoade Coercion or volition: making sense of the experiences of female victims of trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands / Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin and Akinyinka Akinyoade Part 4. Zones of transit and transference ; So be nya dagna? ('is someone injured?'): the evolution and use of tricycles in Tamale, northern Ghana / Samuel Ntewusu and Edward Nanbigne Nigerians in transit: the trader and the religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana / Akinyinka Akinyoade Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands: Germany as a transit zone / Amisah Zenabu Bakuri Kinshasa: a city of refugees / Meike de Goede. | 
