Population, Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Kano, 1900 and 1970

by Polly Hill

Book Overview

This book, which reports on fieldwork done in an exceedingly densely populated locality of rural Hausaland (Dorayi) in 1971-1972, is complete in itself. In it Dr Hill compares and contrasts Dorayi with the much less densely populated village of her previous study, with special reference to the consequences of high and persistent population density; she also attempts to interpret the present-day stability of this stagnating, impoverished, overcrowded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521107083
• ISBN13: 9780521107082
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"