| Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa Contributor(s): Falola, Toyin (Editor), Usman, Aribidesi (Editor), Ogunfolakan, Adisa (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1580462960 ISBN-13: 9781580462969 Publisher: University of Rochester Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2009 Annotation: A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Business & Economics | Economic History - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 304.809 |
| LCCN: 2009001818 |
| Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.50 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over centuries -- in groups or as individuals -- Africans have been forced to leave their homes to escape unfavorable natural, social, or political circumstances, or simply to seek better lives elsewhere. This essential volume establishes the centrality of human migration and movement to the evolution of African societies. Using oral, archaeological, and written sources, and focusing on various geographical areas, the contributors show that migration is a multifaceted phenomenon, historically varied in nature and character. Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa incorporates carefully selected case studies drawn from across the continent, and provides a broad but insightful overview of migration and its complex relationships to slavery, commerce, religion, architecture, material culture, poverty, diaspora life and identity formation, and the development of states and societies on the continent. Taken as a whole, this collection offers a groundbreaking interrogation of themyriad causes and effects of African migration, from the precolonial to the modern era. Contributors: Edmund Abaka, Maurice Amutabi, Toyin Falola, Ghislaine Geloin, Issiaka Mande, Jean-Luc Martineau, Pius S. Nyambara, Akinwumi Ogundiran, Adisa Ogunfolakan, Olatunji Ojo, Brigitte Kowalski Oshineye, Meshack Owino, Gerald Steyn, and Aribidesi Usman. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Aribidesi Usman is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology at Arizona State University. |