Strangers and traders : Yoruba migrants, markets, and the state in northern Ghana / J.S. Eades.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eades, J. S. (Jeremy Seymour), 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants.

Economic conditions.

Yoruba (African people)--Commerce.

History.

Yoruba (African people).

Emigration and immigration.

Northern Region (Ghana)--Commerce--History--20th century.

Northern Region (Ghana).

Northern Region (Ghana)--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects--History--20th century.

Nigeria--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Nigeria.

Yoruba (African people)--Commerce--Ghana--Northern Region--History--20th century.

Immigrants--Ghana--Northern Region--Economic conditions.

Northern Region (Ghana)--Economic conditions.

Ghana--Northern Region.

Physical Description:

xi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1994.

Summary:

At the time of the exodus, Jerry Eades was carrying out research on the Yoruba and was able to follow these traders back to Nigeria. There, on the basis of extensive interviews and archival sources, he reconstructed the history of the migration from four Yoruba towns to northern Ghana. The result is one of the fullest and most detailed accounts of chain migration and its implications for economic development ever written - of interest not only to anthropologists and historians, but more generally to anyone with an interest in trade and informal sector labor markets, and their relationship to ethnicity, economic development and state politics in Third World countries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0865434190

0865434204

OCLC:

29387722