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People of the Zongo: The Transformation of Ethnic Identities in Ghana

By (author) Enid Schildkrout

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Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context.

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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 17 Sep 2007
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 229 x 153 x 19mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 485g
ISBN | 978-0-5210-4053-2
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BISAC | philosophy / logic


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