Strangers and Traders : : Yoruba Migrants, Markets and the State in Northern Ghana / / Jeremy Eades.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Eades, Jeremy,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International African Library : IAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)

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.

Table of 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