The City of Ibadan: A Symposium on its Structure and Development

LLOYD, P.C., A.L. MABOGUNJE, AND B. AWE, EDS

ISBN 10: 0521055776 / ISBN 13: 9780521055772

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1967

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18730

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The City of Ibadan: A Symposium on its Structure and Development
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1967
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521055776
• ISBN-13: 9780521055772
• Einband: Hard Cover
• Auflage: First Edition, First printing.
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • African History

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Inhaltsangabe

This is a study of Ibadan, the largest indigenous African city south of the Sahara.

Reseña del editor

This is a study of Ibadan, the largest indigenous African city south of the Sahara. Ibadan began its existence as a war-camp and has retained, to a large extent, the structure of an overgrown village. In the core of the town, settled in the nineteenth century, the people live together in large family compounds. The new elites live in the peripheral modern suburbs but here individual homes are the rule. The two sections of the city depend on one another economically and the commercial and industrial development of new Ibadan is modifying the life of the old city. The book is a symposium based on a series of papers presented at a seminar organised by the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ibadan. Each contributor is an expert in his own field and together they provide a comprehensive survey of the history, geography, sociology and political structure of this remarkable city. All sides of the city's life and structure are examined in relation to one another; the book deals with the city as a whole and not single aspects of it.