Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa 025300957X, 9780244972677

Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in We

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Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa
025300957X, 9780244972677

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Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receivi

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This book examines social, economic and political issues in West, Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders, hu

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This book develops new ways of thinking beyond the nation as a form of political community by seeking to transcend ethno

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In Mobility Makes States, political scientists, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists examine the role of mobili

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This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of

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Studies some of the units of local representative government in Southern Nigeria and the problems encountered in the int

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This reissue, first published in 1983, is an authoritative study of economic integration among the states of West Africa

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The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, a

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