Rural Hausa
Author: Polly Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1972-03-16
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0521082420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Study with special reference to the village of Batagarawa.
Author: Polly Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1972-03-16
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0521082420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Study with special reference to the village of Batagarawa.
Author: Paul Clough
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1782382712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.
Author: Polly Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1970-04-02
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780521076227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Study of rural area economic structures and mechanisms in West Africa, with particular reference to ownership and capitalist entrepreneurship among indigenous peoples in Ghana and Nigeria - covers economic implications and social implications of marketing activities connected with agriculture, animal production and fishery. Bibliography pp. 160 to 165, maps and statistical tables.
Author: Steven Pierce
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-10-26
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0253111544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano, Steven Pierce examines issues surrounding the colonial state and the distribution of state power in northern Nigeria. Here, Pierce deconstructs the colonial state and offers a unique reading of land tenure that challenges earlier views of the role of indirect rule. According to Pierce, land tenure was the means the colonial government used to rule the local population and extract taxes from them, but it was also a political logic with a fundamental flaw and a Western bias. In Pierce's view, colonial representations of land tenure claimed to reflect precolonial systems of rule, but instead, fundamentally misrepresented farmers' experience. He maintains that this misrepresentation created a paradox at the core of the colonial state which persists into the present and helps to explain contemporary problems in African states. In this sweeping and eloquent account of African history, readers will find an extended genealogy of land law and taxation as well as rich material on the power of indigenous knowledge and the persistence of colonial systems of rule.
Author: Alan W. Childs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1461335124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anne Haour
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-07-30
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9004185437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology, this book offers a compelling portrait of the emergence and evolution of Hausa identity in West Africa.