Falola / Usman Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-58046-728-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 40, 332 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, Toyin

Usman, Aribidesi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ogunfolakan, Adisa

Ogundiran, Akin

Usman, Aribidesi

Oshineye, Brigitte Kowalski

Abaka, Edmund

Steyn, Gerald

Géloin, Ghislaine

Mande, Isiakka

Martineau, Jean-Luc

Amutabi, Maurice Nyamanga

Owino, Meshack

Ojo, Olatunji

Nyambara, Pius S.

Falola, Toyin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Migrations in African History: An Introduction - and Toyin Falola and Aribidesi Usman
Frontier Migrations and Cultural Transformations in the Yoruba Hinterland, ca. 1575-1700: The Case of Upper Osun - Akin 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 - Brigitte Kowalski Oshineye
Squatting and Settlement Making in Mamelodi, South Africa - Gerald Steyn
"Scattering Time": Anticolonial Resistance and Migration among the Jo-Ugeny 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 Géloin
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 Nyamanga Amutabi
Labor Market Constraints and Competition in Colonial Africa: Migrant Workers, Population, and Agricultural Production in Upper Volta, 1920-32 - Isiakka Mande

Über Autor(innen)

Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.