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

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Africa World Press, 1994 - Business & Economics - 234 pages
A detailed account of chain migration and its implications for economic development
 

Contents

The political economy of a migration
11
Yoruba townsmen in the northern Gold Coast
42
The Yoruba traders
80
Success and failure in trade
107
The Yoruba community in Tamale
140
Traders migrants and the state
176
A note on methods
198
Bibliography
215
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