| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Life and Poverty in the Savanna-Sahel Zones -- Adjustments to the Environment -- Increasing Impoverishment -- Nigeria's Drive for Food Self-Reliance -- Indices of Poverty -- Reclaiming the Land -- Outline of the Book -- Notes -- References -- 2 Power, Prosperity, and Social Inequality in Songhay (1464-1591) -- Military Foundations of Development and Inequality -- The Role of Islam |
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The Rise of a Prosperous Intelligentsia -- Agriculture and the Nature of Society -- Slavery Reconsidered -- Notes -- References -- 3 Life Before the Drought: A Human Ecological Perspective -- The Human Ecological Approach -- Habe-Fulbe Settlement in the Savanna-Sahel Zones -- Hausa-Fulani Relations -- Rethinking Symbiosis -- Notes -- References -- 4 Nomads, Farmers, and Merchants: Old Strategies in a Changing Sudan -- Introduction and Summary of the Argument -- The Drought -- Underlying Social and Ecological Processes -- Transformation of the Economy -- State Capitalism: The Irrigated Sector |
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Government Responses to Drought -- Conclusion and Comments -- References -- 5 Differential Development in Machakos District, Kenya -- Initial Conditions -- The Establishment of Machakos District, Kenya Colony -- The Interwar years -- The Impact of ALDEV and the Swynnerton Plan -- Toward Independence and Beyond -- References -- 6 The Demise of the Moral Economy: Food and Famine in a Sudano-Sahelian Region in Historical Perspective -- Risk, Hunger, and Famine During the 19th Century -- Colonial Integration and the Demise of the Moral Economy |
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The Contemporary Situation: The View from Kaita Village -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Changing Land-Use Patterns in the Fadamas of Northern Nigeria -- Case Study of the Area Between Kano and Kaduna -- Fadama Cultivation -- Fadama Grazing -- Land Use and Technological Development -- The Potential for Development -- Limitations to Development -- Notes -- References -- 8 The Fulani in a Development Context: The Relevance of Cultural Traditions for Coping with Change and Crisis -- The Fulani -- How the Fulani Live -- The Fulani and Development |
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Where do we go from Here? Appropriate Strategies for the Dilemmas of Development -- Summary -- Appendix: Selected Examples of Projects Tried Among the Fulani -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Little attention had been paid to the realities of life in the Savanna-Sahel of West Africa before the drought of 1968-74, but this book, originally published in 1984 provides a set of authoritative accounts of the way in which the inhabitants cope with what outsiders perceive as a harsh environment |
| Notes |
Machine-generated record |
| Subject |
Human beings -- Effect of environment on Sahel
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Human ecology -- Sahel
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| SUBJECT |
Sahel -- Economic conditions
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040014042 |
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1040014046 |
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