Yoruba hometowns
Subtitle: community, identity, and development in Nigeria
By: Lillian Trager.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Yoruba (African people) -- Kinship; Yoruba (African people) -- Ethnic identity; Philosophy, Yoruba -- Nigeria -- Ijesa Region; Community life -- Nigeria -- Ijesa Region; Community development -- Nigeria -- Ijesa Region; Rural development -- Nigeria -- Ijesa Region; Ijesa Region (Nigeria) -- Social life and customs
Description: "The pattern of migrants maintaining strong ties with their home communities is particularly common in sub-Saharan Africa, where it has important social, cultural, political, and economic implications. This book explores the significance of hometown connections for civil society and local development in Nigeria.

Rich ethnographic description and case studies illustrate the links that the Ijesa Yoruba maintain with their communities of origin - links that both help to shape social identity and contribute to local development.".

"Trager also examines indigenous concepts of "development," demonstrating how the Ijesa Yoruba bring their understandings of development to efforts in their own communities. Placing her work in the context of national political and economic change, she raises questions about the motivations, implications, and consequences of local development efforts, not only for the communities and their members but also for the larger polity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction; title: 2 Community-Day Celebrations: A New Tradition at Home; title: 3 Knowing Your Place: The Hometown and Identity; title: 4 "We Are Just Sojourners Here": Ijesa Migration; title: 5 "We Love Ourselves Abroad":; title: Hometown Organizations and Their Members; title: 6 Ceremonies and Celebrations:; title: The Symbolism of Hometown Links; title: 7 Local Development and the Economic Crisis; title: 8 Self-Help and the Practice of Local Development in Ijesaland; title: 9 The Elusive Goal of Unity: Politics, Conflict, and Morality; title: I Conclusion: Communities and Development.