The nature of the path
Subtitle: reading a West African road
By: Marcus Filippello
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781452952123; 9781452952130
Subjects: Roads; History; Social conditions; Environmental aspects; Social aspects
Notes: "A Quadrant book" -- title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Crossing the black earth; title: The roads into Igbó Ilú : the making of an Ọhọri identity; title: Roads to subversion : displaying independence and displacing authority in the early colonial era; title: Going to the greens seller : Ọhọri communal expansion in the 1920s and 1930s; title: "It has become a joy to go to Tollou" : reinterpreting the tools of French colonial développement; title: Cementing identities : negotiating independence in a changing landscape; title: Conclusion: Breathing with the road.