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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 the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the precolonial to the modern era.

ISBN 1580462960   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781580462969 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 660 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd   Published in Rochester Imprint University of Rochester Press   Series ISSN 1092-522 Format Hardback   Series title Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Publication date 15 May 2009   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2009001818   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 304.8096   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 334

Introduction		Migrations in African History: An Introduction by Aribidesi Usman and Toyin Falola		1
1		Frontier Migrations and Cultural Transformations in the Yoruba Hinterland, ca. 1575-1700: The Case of Upper Osun by Akinwumi Ogundiran		37
2		The Root Is Also Here: The Nondiaspora Foundations of Yoruba Ethnicity by Olatunji Ojo		53
3		Settlement Strategies, Ceramic Use, and Factors of Change among the People of Northeast Osun State, Nigeria by Adisa Ogunfolakan		81
4		Precolonial Regional Migration and Settlement Abandonment in Yorubaland, Nigeria by Aribidesi Usman		99
5		Migrations, Identities, and Transculturation in the Coastal Cities of Yorubaland in the Second Half of the Second Millennium: An Approach to African History through Architecture by Brigitte Kowalski Oshineye		126
6		Squatting and Settlement Making in Mamelodi, South Africa by Gerald Steyn		153
7		"Scattering Time": Anticolonial Resistance and Migration among the Jo-Ugenya of Kenya toward the End of the Nineteenth Century by Meshack Owino		166
8		Traders, Slaves, and Soldiers: The Hausa Diaspora in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante) in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Edmund Abaka		185
9		Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in a Frontier Region: The Gokwe District of Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963-79 by Pius S. Nyambara		200
10		Displacement, Migration, and the Curse of Borders in Francophone West Africa by Ghislaine Geloin		226
11		Shifting Identities among Nigerian Yoruba in Dahomey and the Republic of Benin (1940s-2004) by Jean-Luc Martineau		238
12		Identity, "Foreign-ness," and the Dilemma of Immigrants at the Coast of Kenya: Interrogating the Myth of "Black Arabs" among Kenyan Africans by Maurice N. Amutabi		261
13		Labor Market Constraints and Competition in Colonial Africa: Migrant Workers, Population, and Agricultural Production in Upper Volta, 1920-32 by Issiaka Mande		285
		Index		309

"Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa is an excellent multidisciplinary contribution to African Studies, emphasizing the migratory experiences of Africans across the continent and globally, from the crucible of humanity in east Africa to trans-regional movements across Africa and internationally." -Gloria Emeagwali, Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University "Falola and Usman have set the standard by bringing together in one volume some of the best studies on migration, border crossings, population movement, and shifting identities within the African continent. A remarkable contribution to the understanding of the dynamics and forms of such understudied areas within African history. The volume comes in handy as a textbook on the history and ethnography of migration and population displacement in the precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa." -Salah M. Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director of Africana Studies and Research Center and History of Art, Cornell University

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