Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa

Prothero, R. Marshall; Parkin, David

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“…Some have argued that African urbanization is driven primarily by natural population growth, while others have convincingly demonstrated that migrants make up a large proportion of the population in many urban areas [2][3][4]. Migrants to cities do not generally or immediately cut their links with rural homes, and there is a large body of literature on the character, types, and implications of connections between rural areas and rapidly urbanizing cities dating back to at least the 1980s [5][6][7][8][9][10]. However, recent studies have suggested that rapid urbanization requires a reconceptualization of the dominant linear view of migrants relocating to cities and sending cash remittances to relatives left behind in the countryside.…”

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Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

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This paper draws on data from a representative city-wide household food security survey of Nairobi conducted in 2017 to examine the importance of food remitting to households in contemporary Nairobi. The first section of the paper provides an overview of the urbanization and rapid growth of Nairobi, which has led to growing socio-economic inequality, precarious livelihoods for the majority, and growing food insecurity, as context for the more detailed empirical analysis of food security and food remittances that follows. It is followed by a description of the survey methodology and sections analyzing the differences between migrant and non-migrant households in Nairobi. Attention then turns to the phenomenon of food remitting, showing that over 50% of surveyed households in the city had received food remittances in the previous year. The paper then uses multivariate logistic regression to identify the relationship between Nairobi household characteristics and the probability of receiving food remittances from rural areas. The findings suggest that there are exceptions to the standard migration and poverty-driven explanatory model of the drivers of rural–urban food remitting and that greater attention should be paid to other motivations for maintaining rural–urban connectivity in Africa.

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Political Anthropology: Manipulative Strategies

Vincent¹

1978

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Historical Dictionary of Burundi

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Eggers²

1998

The International Journal of African Historical Studies

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 205.133.226.104 on Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:51:15 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 390 BOOK REVIEWS HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF BURUNDI. By Ellen K. Eggers. African Historical Dictionaries, No. 73. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1997. Pp. lxxvi, 199. $38.00. Scarecrow Press's African Historical Dictionary series lives on. Beginning with the Historical Dictionary of Cameroon by Victor LeVine and Roger Nye in 1974, the series now numbers some seventy-three volumes and shows no signs of ending. Many of the original volumes have been revised, and a few are now in their third editions. Ellen K. Eggers's Historical Dictionary of Burundi, the latest in the series, is a complete revision of the original Burundi volume, compiled by Warren Weinstein and published in 1976.Eggers's revision follows the same organization as the earlier volume, beginning with a fifty-page chronology of Burundi history, followed by the dictionary proper and concluding with a lengthy bibliography organized by subject. The chronology and dictionary entries focus on the twenty most recent years of Burundi history, with scant coverage of the precolonial and colonial periods. Events of the centuries and decades up to independence are outlined in the first six pages of the chronology, for example, with the remainder of the forty-seven pages detailing happenings between 1962 and 1 January 1996. The dictionary is similarly focused, with modern entries predominating. Eggers, a member of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a lecturer at the University of Burundi in 1985-86, and her emphasis on current events highlights the years closest to the time she herself was in Burundi.It would be easy to find fault with many of the chronology and dictionary entries, which are sometimes inaccurate and often confusing. But perhaps the more important concern is to consider this volume as yet another entry in a series with the most dated, unimaginative approach possible to African history. Scarecrow has no doubt found it profitable to continue turning out these volumes, and I suspect that for many, if not most, of the libraries that purchase the African Historical Dictionaries series, the volumes constitute the only books in their collections that provide coverage of individual countries. Even in larger libraries, like the University of Michigan's, where one set of the volumes is part of the noncirculating reference collection, these may be the first sources students consult when beginning to research a historical topic. The volumes depict African history as a series of exact dates, unpronounceable names, and exotic terms, with little attempt to provide context or ...

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Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa

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Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

Political Anthropology: Manipulative Strategies

Historical Dictionary of Burundi

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