Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland

by Paul Clough

The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782382704
• ISBN13: 9781782382706
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"