Strangers and Traders: Yoruba Migrants, Markets and the State in Northern Ghana

Jeremy Eades

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1993

Strangers and Traders

Yoruba Migrants, Markets and the State in Northern Ghana

Jeremy Eades

In the series International African Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474467940

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In the inter-war years, groups of enterprising Yoruba traders from a few towns in Western Nigeria established a successful trading network throughout the Gold Coast (Ghana). Then, in 1969, they were abruptly ordered to leave the country. At the time of the exodus, Jerry Eades followed the traders back to Nigeria. There, on the basis of extensive interviews and archival sources, he reconstructed the history of the migration from four Yorubu towns to northern Ghana. The result is one of the fullest and most detailed accounts of chain migration and its implications for economic development ever written.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of plates, maps, tables and figures Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
A note on currency Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
A note on orthography Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 The political economy of a migration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3 Yoruba townsmen in the northern Gold Coast Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4 The Yoruba traders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
5 Success and failure in trade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6 The Yoruba community in Tamale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
7 Traders, migrants and the state Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Appendix: A note on methods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 234
Keywords: African Studies

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Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9781474467940