African roads to prosperity : : people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations / / edited by Akinyinka Akinyoade, Jan-Bart Gewald ; contributors, Akinyinka Akinyoade [and fouteen others].

• Superior document: African Dynamics, Volume 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Akinyoade, Akinyinka,; Gewald, Jan-Bart,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: African dynamics ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; African Roads to Prosperity: People En Route to Socio-Cultural and Economic Transformations /; Roads to Prosperity: Social Zones of Transit /; Roads to Prosperity: Reflections about a Concept /; Wenela, Katima Mulilo, a Zone of Transit in Barotseland: The Development of a Holding Zone for Migrants on the Extreme Frontier of the South African Empire /; ‘Trapped’ in the North: Southern Migrants in Northern Nigeria, 1908–1970s /; Migration and Competition over Commercial Spaces: The Case of Songhay Migrants at the Kumasi Central Market, Ghana 1930–1948 /; Resettlement in Zimbabwe: Final Destination from the Zones of Transition? /; A Romantic Zone of Transference? Botswana, Ghanaian Migrants and Marital Social Mobility /; The Opportunities of the Margin: The Kapsiki Smith and his Road to Prosperity /; Migrants’ Assessment of Prospects in Migration: A Case Study of Conservancy Labourers in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana /; Coercion or Volition: Making Sense of the Experiences of Female Victims of Trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands /; So Be Nya Dagna? (‘Is Someone Injured?’): The Evolution and Use of Tricycles in Tamale, Northern Ghana /; Nigerians in Transit: The Trader and the Religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana /; Ghanaian Migrants in the Netherlands: Germany as a Transit Zone /; Kinshasa: A City of Refugees /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9004306056
• ISSN: 1568-1777
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Akinyinka Akinyoade, Jan-Bart Gewald ; contributors, Akinyinka Akinyoade [and fouteen others].

This book brings together in a comparative analysis the results of studies of the various cultural, social, economic and historical aspects that are formative in African societies’ experiences of how people negotiated the spaces and times of being in transit on the road to prosperity. The book analyses the various outcomes of the process of mobility and the experience of spaces and times of transit across gender, generational, and class-differences. These experiences are explored and give insight into the socio-cultural and economics transformations that have taken place in African societies in the past century. Contributors are: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Walter van Beek, Marleen Dekker, Ton Dietz, Rijk van Dijk, Isaie Dougnon, Jan-Bart Gewald, Meike de Goede, Benjamin Kofi Nyarko, Samuel Ntewusu Aniegye, Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin, Shehu Tijjani Yusuf, Augustine Tanle and Amisah Zenabu Bakuri.