Table of Contents

Migrations in African History: An Introduction - and Toyin Falola and Aribidesi Usman
Frontier Migrations and Cultural Transformations in the Yoruba Hinterland, ca. 1575-1700: The Case of Upper Osun - Akin Ogundiran
The Root Is Also Here: The Nondiaspora Foundations of Yoruba Ethnicity - Olatunji Ojo
Settlement Strategies, Ceramic Use, and Factors of Change among the People of Northeast Osun State, Nigeria - Adisa Ogunfolakan
Precolonial Regional Migration and Settlement Abandonment in Yorubaland, Nigeria - Aribidesi Usman
Migrations, Identities, and Transculturation in the Coastal Cities of Yorubaland in the Second Half of the Second Millennium - Brigitte Kowalski Oshineye
Squatting and Settlement Making in Mamelodi, South Africa - Gerald Steyn
"Scattering Time": Anticolonial Resistance and Migration among the Jo-Ugeny of Kenya toward the End of the Nineteenth Century - Meshack Owino
Traders, Slaves, and Soldiers: The Hausa Diaspora in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante) in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - Edmund Abaka
Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in a Frontier Region: The Gokwe District of Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963-79 - Pius S. Nyambara
Displacement, Migration, and the Curse of Borders in Francophone West Africa - Ghislaine Géloin
Shifting Identities among Nigerian Yoruba in Dahomey and the Republic of Benin (1940s-2004) - Jean-Luc Martineau
Identity, "Foreign-ness," and the Dilemma of Immigrants at the Coast of Kenya: Interrogating the Myth of "Black Arabs" among Kenyan Africans - Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi
Labor Market Constraints and Competition in Colonial Africa: Migrant Workers, Population, and Agricultural Production in Upper Volta, 1920-32 - Isiakka Mande

About the Author

TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

Meticulously well researched... fascinating and innovative approach to the historiography of Nigerian underclasses. AFRIKA SPECTRUM Coherently written monograph...A refreshing class analysis of the historical process in a Nigerian sub-region by a non-Marxist historian. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Power Relations is an ambitious project, and will stand as a solid and useful contribution that will help piece together an important and sensitive phase in the African experience. AFRICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY A splendid and fascinating volume. Well researched, well written, conceptually sound, and solidly gounded in the historiography of slavery...a triumph of innovative scholarship. AF. STUDIES REVIEWS A valuable work because it looks at an area and at questions which have not been fully explored. AFRICAN HISTORY