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Title: | Islamic affiliations and urban adaptation: the Sisala migrant in Accra, Ghana |
Author: | Grindal, Bruce T. |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 333-346 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | Sisala urbanization conversion |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159260 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1973-043-00-000028 |
Abstract: | This study sets out to explain the relatively high incidence of Islamic affiliation among traditionally non-Islamic Sisala migrants living in the migrant community of Mamobi in Accra, Ghana. The Sisala people are situated primarily in north-western Ghana, but include a small population in Upper Volta. Migration creates a psycho-social and psycho-cultural hiatus wherein the migrant perceives himself as alone and unprotected, lacking the means by which to resolve his problems and anxieties. Affiliation with the Islam, which occupies a superior status as a universal religion, provides an identity nexus which serves to differentiate the migrant from his unacculturated and pagan tribesmen in the North. Table, summary. |