Yoruba Town Research Articles

: Yoruba Towns and Cities: An Enquiry into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena . Eva Krapf-Askari.

: Yoruba Towns and Cities: An Enquiry into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena . Eva Krapf-Askari.

Abner Cohen: Custom and politics in urban Africa: a study of Hausa migrants in Yoruba towns. xii, 252 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 36s.

Abner Cohen: Custom and politics in urban Africa: a study of Hausa migrants in Yoruba towns. xii, 252 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 36<i>s</i>.

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns

Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 1960s among the Hausa migrants, a people of the Yoruba area (then the western region of the Federation of Nigeria), Custom and Politics in Urban Africa looks at how ethnic groups use elements of tradition in jostling for power and privilege in new urban situations. This is a landmark work in urban anthropology and provides a comparative framework for studying political processes in African societies.

Yoruba towns and cities; an enquiry into the nature of urban socialphenomena

Abstract Generally non-Western societies are characterized by rural settlements, which consist of small concentrations of people. The Yoruba who live in West Africa and particularly in Nigeria have always lived in densely packed walled settlements, which often were the capitals of tribal kingdoms. This remarkable phenomenon is the subject of this study.

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns.

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns.

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns.

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns.

Yoruba Towns and Cities: an Enquiry into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena

Yoruba Towns and Cities: an Enquiry into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena

Book Review: Yoruba Towns and Cities: An Enquiry into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena

Book Review: Yoruba Towns and Cities: An Enquiry into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena

Yoruba Towns and Cities: An Enquiry into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena

Yoruba Towns and Cities: An Enquiry into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena

Yoruba Towns and Cities: An Enquiry Into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena

Yoruba Towns and Cities: An Enquiry Into the Nature of Urban Social Phenomena

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns. By Abner Cohen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Pp. 252. $5.50.)

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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns

Book Reviews : Custom and Politics in Urban Africa—A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns. By ABNER COHEN (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969). xi + 252 pp. £1.16s

Book Reviews : Custom and Politics in Urban Africa—A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns. By ABNER COHEN (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969). xi + 252 pp. £1.16s

The Craft Structure of a Traditional Yoruba Town

The Craft Structure of a Traditional Yoruba Town

The Organization of Traditional Weaving in Iseyin, Nigeria

Opening ParagraphThe Yoruba town of Iseyin, 55 miles north-west of the city of Ibadan, is a traditional settlement with little economic specialization or division of labour other than according to sex. There is no factory development or industrial employment in the town. In the local tax returns for 1966, 88 per cent of the male taxpayers recorded farming as their primary occupation and the basis of the town's economy is still agricultural. Iseyin is now influenced by modern media of communication, however—by road, radio and the postal services—and its economy is responding to consumer demands in the large cities of Ibadan, Abeokuta and Lagos, in addition to those of its own locality. This applies also to the hand-weaving products for which Iseyin is well-known throughout Nigeria.

Divorce among the Yoruba

Divorce rates among the northern Yoruba are not only higher than one might expect in patrilineal societies, but little different from those of the southern Yoruba, with cognatic descent groups. This initial observation challenges the hypothesis that divorce rates are directly correlated with the line of descent. Data on over 300 divorces were collected in four Yoruba towns—two with agnatic and two with cognatic descent groups. The divorces were classed by the length of the terminated marriage and its fertility, and the distribution of the types of divorce were then compared in the four towns. The results suggest that the rate of divorce is primarily correlated with the degree to which a woman is alienated by marriage from her own descent group. But a number of secondary factors seem to be important, and these may cumulatively raise or reduce the divorce rate to a marked degree.

Town-Farm Relationships in Yorubaland: A Case Study from Oyo

Opening ParagraphThe Yoruba are generally believed to be the most urbanized of the peoples of tropical Africa, and certainly their propensity for living in large nucleated settlements is one of the most striking features of the settlement geography of the continent. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Yoruba town has attracted a considerable amount of attention from anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers alike. W. R. Bascom and others have emphasized the uniqueness, magnitude, and long history of urban development; W. B. Morgan, A. L. Mabogunje, and N. C. Mitchel have examined the functions and morphology of Yoruba towns; and certain sociologists, notably N. A. Fadipe and P. C. Lloyd, have discussed detailed aspects of Yoruba urban life. From all these writings one dominant feature has emerged: that Yoruba towns are ‘agricultural towns’ in the sense that they are agriculturally based and the product of intimate links between town and country. While it is true that most towns in pre-industrial societies tend to be linked with their immediate hinterlands, in so far as the excess of food production there makes their existence possible, Yoruba towns are linked to their hinterlands by even stronger ties, because the Yoruba living in the country traditionally looks upon the town as his real home and owes direct social allegiance to it.

Yoruba Towns

Yoruba Towns

The Story of Sacred Wood Carvings from One Small Yoruba Town. By Ulli Beier. Edited by D. W. Macrow. (A special Nigeria Magazine production.) Lagos, 1957 (3rd impression, 1959). Pp. 13, 38 plates. 4s. 6d.

The Story of Sacred Wood Carvings from One Small Yoruba Town. By Ulli Beier. Edited by D. W. Macrow. (A special Nigeria Magazine production.) Lagos, 1957 (3rd impression, 1959). Pp. 13, 38 plates. 4s. 6d. - Volume 31 Issue 1

“THE STORY OF SACRED WOOD CARVINGS FROM ONE SMALL YORUBA TOWN”, by H. U. Beier, edited by D. W. Macrow. Printed at Yaba, and published by the Nigeria Magazine, Marina, Lagos

“THE STORY OF SACRED WOOD CARVINGS FROM ONE SMALL YORUBA TOWN”, by H. U. Beier, edited by D. W. Macrow. Printed at Yaba, and published by the Nigeria Magazine, Marina, Lagos