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Title: | Political aspects of migrations in West Africa: the example of French colonies with particular reference to the Ivory Coast and the Upper Volta up to 1945 |
Author: | Asiwaju, A.I. |
Year: | 1977 |
Periodical: | Afrika Zamani: revue d'histoire africaine |
Issue: | 6-7 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 73-101 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire Burkina Faso France |
Subjects: | colonialism migration History and Exploration Urbanization and Migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government |
Abstract: | The present-study looks at the phenomenon of migrations as an aspect of West African reaction to European colonial establishment. In this regard, the Ivory Coast case is offered as an example of a wider phenomenon of protest migrations which took place in most parts of French West Africa as a result of the strains arising from French colonial policy on taxation, forced labour, conscription, chieftaincy institution and population relocation. The fact that the migrants almost always sought refuge in neighbouring British colonies (the Gold Coast in this case) affords the opportunity to compare French and British approaches to native administration in Wes Africa at the grass roots level. While much of the data relates to the better documented occurrences in the Assinie and Indenie districts of the southeastern Ivory Coast, the account also covers the exodus of the late 1920s and mid-1930s in the southeastern frontier districts such as Goua, Ouagadougou, Tenkodoko and Kedougou in Upper Volta. Notes. |