Rasheed Oyewole Olaniyi

Migration and Diaspora Identity in Northern Nigeria and Ghana, 1900-1970

Yoruba Citizenship and Belonging

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a comparative historical analysis to shed light on discourses on migration, transnationalism, and homeland politics and how they shaped citizenship as well as belonging in the Yoruba diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781847014283
• ISBN-10: 1847014283
• Artikelnr.: 73360617

Autorenporträt

RASHEED OYEWOLE OLANIYI is Professor of African History at the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and books on Economic and Social History focusing on migration and diaspora studies, conflict and peacebuilding, identity politics, and vigilantism.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Yoruba
Migration and Commercial Activities in Northern Ghana and Northern Nigeria
2. Yoruba Migrants and Transnationalism in Tamale 3. Yoruba Migrants in
Kano: Citizenship and Belonging 4. Remittances from Ghana, Northern Nigeria
and Local Development in Colonial Yorubaland 5. The 1969 Ghana Deportation
Order: Memory and Reminiscences of Yoruba Migrants Conclusion Bibliography