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)