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Title:Social and cultural change
Author:Peel, J.D.Y.ISNI
Book title:The Cambridge History of Africa: vol. 8: From c. 1940 to c. 1975
Year:1984
Pages:142-191
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subject:social change
Abstract:A survey concentrating on the social processes typical of the 'normal' African country: an excolony of West, East or Central Africa which gained its independence in the 1950s or 1960s. Such a country showed characteristic experiences in its patterns of migration, the growth of towns, changing bases of identity, class formation, and in the problems of state and society as well as of cultural change. Bibliographical essay (p. 827-832), bibliogr. (p. 915-921), notes, tab.
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