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- author.

Series:

International African library ; 11.

International African library ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Yoruba (African people).

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

Immigrants.

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.

Northern Region (Ghana)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London ; Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Summary:

In the inter-war years, groups of enterprising Yoruba traders from a few towns in Western Nigeria established a successful trading network throughout the Gold Coast (Ghana). Then, in 1969, they were abruptly ordered to leave the country. At the time of the exodus, Jerry Eades followed the traders back to Nigeria. There, on the basis of extensive interviews and archival sources, he reconstructed the history of the migration from four Yorubu 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

List of plates, maps, tables and figures

List of abbreviations

A note on currency

A note on orthography

1 Introduction

2 The political economy of a migration

3 Yoruba townsmen in the northern Gold Coast

4 The Yoruba traders

5 Success and failure in trade

6 The Yoruba community in Tamale

7 Traders, migrants and the state

Appendix: A note on methods

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-225) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-6794-6