ISBN:
1282895028
,
9781282895027
,
9781580467285
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 318 p)
,
ill
Series Statement:
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora v. 40
Parallel Title:
Print version Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa : Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors
DDC:
304.8096
Keywords:
Ethnicity
;
Africa Historical geography
;
Africa Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Africa Boundaries
Description / Table of Contents:
""Frontcover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Part A: State Formation and Migration Crossroads""; ""1 Frontier Migrations and Cultural Transformations in the Yoruba Hinterland, ca. 1575�1700""; ""2 The Root Is Also Here: The Nondiaspora Foundations of Yoruba Ethnicity""; ""3 Settlement Strategies, Ceramic Use, and Factors of Change among the People of Northeast Osun State, Nigeria""; ""4 Precolonial Regional Migration and Settlement Abandonment in Yorubaland, Nigeria""
Description / Table of Contents:
""5 Migrations, Identities, and Transculturation in the Coastal Cities of Yorubaland in the Second Half of the Second Millennium: An Approach to African History through Architecture""""Part B: Movements and Identities""; ""6 Squatting and Settlement Making in Mamelodi, South Africa""; ""7 “Scattering Time� Anticolonial Resistance and Migration among the Jo-Ugenya of Kenya toward the End of the Nineteenth Century""; ""8 Traders, Slaves, and Soldiers: The Hausa Diaspora in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante) in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries""
Description / Table of Contents:
""9 Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in a Frontier Region: The Gokwe District of Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963�79""""10 Displacement, Migration, and the Curse of Borders in Francophone West Africa""; ""11 Shifting Identities among Nigerian Yoruba in Dahomey and the Republic of Benin (1940s�2004)""; ""12 Identity, “Foreign-ness,� and the Dilemma of Immigrants at the Coast of Kenya: Interrogating the Myth of “Black Arabs� among Kenyan Africans""
Description / Table of Contents:
""13 Labor Market Constraints and Competition in Colonial Africa: Migrant Workers, Population, and Agricultural Production in Upper Volta, 1920�32""""LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX""; ""Backcover ""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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