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This book uncovers the driving forces and mechanisms through which Yoruba migrant communities in Kano, the largest commercial and administrative city in northern Nigeria, and Tamale, the largest commercial and administrative city in northern Ghana, forged diaspora identities and grappled with the challenges of social inclusion and exclusion. Drawing on fieldwork interviews and archival research in particular, it analyses how socio-economic forces and power relations shaped the very different experiences of the two communities as well as how they sustained ties with the homeland in southwestern Nigeria. By contrasting Yoruba diaspora identity in northern Nigeria and Ghana, this book closely examines how citizenship and belonging, used as a form of political control during colonial rule, was further developed in the post-colonial era and furthers discourses on transnationalism and homeland politics.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Yoruba Migration and Commercial Activities in Northern Ghana and Northern Nigeria
2. Yoruba Migrants and Transnationalism in Tamale
3. Yoruba Migrants in Kano: Citizenship and Belonging
4. Remittances from Ghana, Northern Nigeria and Local Development in Colonial Yorubaland
5. The 1969 Ghana Deportation Order: Memory and Reminiscences of Yoruba Migrants
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author
RASHEED OYEWOLE OLANIYI is Professor of African History at the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and books on Economic and Social History focusing on migration and diaspora studies, conflict and peacebuilding, identity politics, and vigilantism.
Summary
Provides a comparative historical analysis to shed light on discourses on migration, transnationalism, and homeland politics and how they shaped citizenship as well as belonging in the Yoruba diaspora.
