Book

Custom & politics in urban Africa: a study of Hausa migrants in Yoruba towns

University of California Press • Berkeley, Calif. • Published In 1969 • Pages:

By: Cohen, Abner.

Abstract

In this monograph, Cohen focuses on the Hausa in the Sabo section of Ibadan, Nigeria, and their relations with the Yoruba, who are the numerically predominant group in Ibadan. Cohen discusses processes by which the Hausa manipulate values, norms, beliefs, and symbols in order to develop an informal political organization which they use as a weapon in their struggle for power with the Yoruba. Cohen describes the ways that the Hausa have maintained control over long-distance trade in Western Nigeria, and remained socially exclusive and politically autonomous within a multi-ethnic Nigerian society. He concludes, among other things, that the Hausa used religious ideology in the form of the Tijaniyya order to retain their identity as a distinct community.

HRAF PubDate

1997

Region

Africa

Sub Region

Western Africa

Document Type

Book

Evaluation

Creator Type

Ethnologist

Document Rating

5: Excellent Primary Data

Analyst

Ronald N. Johnson ; 1995

Field Date

August 1962 - November 1963

Coverage Date

1900-1963

Coverage Place

Sabo, Ibadan, Nigeria

Notes

by Abner Cohen

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index

LCCN

68055743

LCSH

Hausa (African people)