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4 avril 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifra.892
- isbn: 9789782015273
- eisbn: 9791092312164
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Nigeria urbanisme sociologie urbaine migration migration Nigeria urban sociology urbanism Anthropology Area Studies Sociology POL053000 JPASujets proches
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Eghosa E. Osaghae, « Introduction », Institut français de recherche en Afrique, ID : 10.4000/books.ifra.892
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After a long period of neglect and apparent abandonment by many scholars, the study of ethnicity in Nigeria and other parts of Africa has been revived, and with as much vigor as that which attended its ascendancy in African studies in the 1960s. The reasons for the reawakening are not surprising: economic depression and consequent migration have forced people back to interest-begotten weapons like ethnicity, in the desperate struggle to survive; democratic processes have resurrected old unset...