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Title Movements, borders, and identities in Africa / edited by Toyin Falola and Aribidesi Usman.

Imprint Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  304.8096 M869 2009    ---  Available
Description x, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; [v. 40]
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 40.
Contents Frontier migrations and cultural transformations in the Yoruba hinterland, ca. 1575-1700: the case of upper Osun / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- The root is also here: the nondiaspora foundations of Yoruba ethnicity / Olatunji Ojo -- Settlement strategies, ceramic use, and factors of change among the people of northeast Osun state, Nigeria / Adisa Ogunfolakan -- Precolonial regional migration and settlement abandonment in Yorubaland, Nigeria / Aribidesi Usman -- 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 / Brigitte Kowalski Oshineye -- Squatting and settlement making in Mamelodi, South Africa / Gerald Steyn -- "Scattering time": anticolonial resistance and migration among the Jo-Ugenya of Kenya toward the end of the nineteenth century / Meshack Owino -- Traders, slaves, and soldiers: the Hausa diaspora in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Edmund Abaka -- Ethnic identities and the culture of modernity in a frontier region: the Gokwe district of northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963-79 / Pius S. Nyambara -- Displacement, migration, and the curse of borders in francophone West Africa / Ghislaine Geloin -- Shifting identities among Nigerian Yoruba in Dahomey and the Republic of Benin (1940s-2004) / Jean-Luc Martineau -- Identity, "foreign-ness," and the dilemma of immigrants at the coast of Kenya: interrogating the myth of "black Arabs" among Kenyan Africans / Maurice N. Amutabi -- Labor market constraints and competition in colonial Africa: migrant workers, population, and agricultural production in upper Volta, 1920-32 / Issiaka Mande.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Africa -- Boundaries.
Ethnicity -- Africa.
Africa -- Historical geography.
Added Author Falola, Toyin.
Usman, Aribidesi Adisa.
ISBN 9781580462969 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1580462960 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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