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].
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 analy...
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| Superior document: | African Dynamics, Volume 14 |
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| 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. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Akinyinka Akinyoade and Jan-Bart Gewald
- African Roads to Prosperity: People En Route to Socio-Cultural and Economic Transformations / Akinyinka Akinyoade and Jan-Bart Gewald
- Roads to Prosperity: Social Zones of Transit / Amisah Zenabu Bakuri
- Roads to Prosperity: Reflections about a Concept / Ton Dietz
- 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 / Jan-Bart Gewald
- ‘Trapped’ in the North: Southern Migrants in Northern Nigeria, 1908–1970s / Shehu Tijjani Yusuf
- Migration and Competition over Commercial Spaces: The Case of Songhay Migrants at the Kumasi Central Market, Ghana 1930–1948 / Isaie Dougnon
- Resettlement in Zimbabwe: Final Destination from the Zones of Transition? / Marleen Dekker
- A Romantic Zone of Transference? Botswana, Ghanaian Migrants and Marital Social Mobility / Rijk van Dijk
- The Opportunities of the Margin: The Kapsiki Smith and his Road to Prosperity / Walter van Beek
- Migrants’ Assessment of Prospects in Migration: A Case Study of Conservancy Labourers in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana / Augustine Tanle , Benjamin Kofi Nyarko and Akinyinka Akinyoade
- Coercion or Volition: Making Sense of the Experiences of Female Victims of Trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands / Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin and Akinyinka Akinyoade
- So Be Nya Dagna? (‘Is Someone Injured?’): The Evolution and Use of Tricycles in Tamale, Northern Ghana / Samuel Ntewusu and Edward Nanbigne
- Nigerians in Transit: The Trader and the Religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana / Akinyinka Akinyoade
- Ghanaian Migrants in the Netherlands: Germany as a Transit Zone / Amisah Zenabu Bakuri
- Kinshasa: A City of Refugees / Meike de Goede.