Population, Prosperity and Poverty
Subtitle: Rural Kano, 1900 and 1970
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 2, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521107082
Subjects: Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Sociology
First sentence: The economic relationship between Kano city and the countryside in ` 1900' (a date which implies `immediately pre-colonial') will remain basically incomprehensible until intensive historical fieldwork has been undertaken in the countryside along the lines of that recently achieved in Katsina Emirate by Dr Yusufu Bala Usman (Usman, 1974).