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Book SynopsisThis book brings together in a comparative analysis the results of studies of the various cultural, social, economic and historical aspects that are formative in African societies’ experiences of how people negotiated the spaces and times of being in transit on the road to prosperity. The book analyses the various outcomes of the process of mobility and the experience of spaces and times of transit across gender, generational, and class-differences. These experiences are explored and give insight into the socio-cultural and economics transformations that have taken place in African societies in the past century. Contributors are: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Walter van Beek, Marleen Dekker, Ton Dietz, Rijk van Dijk, Isaie Dougnon, Jan-Bart Gewald, Meike de Goede, Benjamin Kofi Nyarko, Samuel Ntewusu Aniegye, Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin, Shehu Tijjani Yusuf, Augustine Tanle and Amisah Zenabu Bakuri.
Table of ContentsPART 1 Introduction 1 African Roads to Prosperity: People en Route to Socio-Cultural and Economic Transformations Jan-Bart Gewald & Akinyinka Akinyoade 2 Roads to Prosperity: Social Zones of Transit Amisah Zenabu Bakuri 3 Roads to Prosperity: Reflections about a Concept Ton Dietz PART 2 Zones of Transit 4 Wenela, Katima Mulilo, a Zone of Transit in Barotseland: The Development of a Holding Zone for Migrants on the Extreme Frontier of the South African Empire Jan-Bart Gewald 5 ‘Trapped’ in the North: Southern Migrants in Northern Nigeria, 1908–1970s Shehu Tijjani Yusuf 6 Migration and Competition around Commercial Spaces: The Case of Songhay Migrants at the Kumasi Central Market, Ghana 1930–1948 Isaie Dougnon 7 Resettlement in Zimbabwe: Final Destination from the Zones of Transition? Marleen Dekker PART 3 Zones of Transference 8 A Romantic Zone of Transference? Botswana, Ghanaian Migrants and Marital Social Mobility Rijk van Dijk 9 The Opportunities of the Margin: The Kapsiki Smith and his Road to Prosperity Walter van Beek 10 Migrants’ Assessment of Prospects in Migration: A Case Study of Conservancy Labourers in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana Augustine Tanle & Benjamin Kofi Nyarko 11 Coercion or Volition: Making Sense of the Experiences of Female Victims of Trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin & Akinyinka Akinyoade PART 4 Zones of Transit and Transference 12 So be nya dagna? (‘Is someone injured?’): The Evolution and Use of Tricycles in Tamale, Northern Ghana Samuel Ntewusu & Edward Nanbigne 13 Nigerians in Transit: The Trader and the Religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana Akinyinka Akinyoade 14 Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands: Germany as a transit zone Amisah Zenabu Bakuri 15 Kinshasa: A city of refugees Meike de Goede List of Contributors
