Social Change in Modern Africa

Studies Presented and Discussed at the First International African Seminar, Makerere College, Kampala, January 1959

Aidan Southall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429942983
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Originally published in 1961, this book analyses economic changes in Africa and the restructuring of social relations to which this hs led. there are also detailed studies of the character of social changes in individual communities. There is a particular focus on changing kinship status and neighbourhood as the impact of modern economic conditions is felt in Tropical Africa.

INDEX

Abidjan, 11

Absenteeism, 43

Accra, 23, 41, 47, 296

Acholi, 40, 222

Administration, 101, 225–6, 240, 251–2

Adultery, 65, 94, 326

Aga Khan, H.H., 101

Aged, and migration, 42

Agriculture, 2, 4, 6, 7, 128, 230, 275, 280, 286, 288, 290, 291, 296, 297, 298, 300, 320–1

Akan, 41, 286–7, 290, 292

Arabs, 226; in Kahama, 244, 246, 247; in Mombasa, 99–102; passim, 110

Asantehene, 288, 289

Ashanti, 2, 56, 287, 288, 290, 301

Asians, in Mombasa, 99–101

Associations, 36, 37, 68, 78, 111, 116-20; appointment of officers in, 119-20; behaviour in, 119–20; credit (ikelemba), 168–9; in Gwelo, 136; in Kahama, 251; Luo Welfare, 111; migrant in Ghana and Ivory Coast, 303–4; Ratepayers, 40; tribal, 38–9; see also Clubs, social; Unions

Authority: of elders, 71, 72, 73; of family, 41, 42, 43, 45; of headmen, 276, 280; Native, 240, 279

Babuku, 301

Bakweri, 52, 64–5, 84–96

Balandier, G., 153

Balong, 92

Baltzell, —, 155

Baluyia, 102

Bamileke, 34, 264

Banana production, 85

Baoule, 49, 302

Barnes, John, 317, 326

Barotse, see Lozi

Bassa, 118

Bauer, Peter, 290

Beer: bars, 28, 136, 140, 227–8, 249-50; brewing by women, 59, 56, 57, 281; sale and sellers of, 213, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword by Professor Daryll Forde
• I Social Change, Demography, and Extrinsic Factors
• II Norms and Status Symbols
• III Small Groups and Social Networks
• IV Kinship, Tribalism, and Family Authority
• V The Position of Women and the Stability of Marriage
• I Anthropological Problems arising from the African Industrial Revolution
• II Social and Demographic Problems of the Southern Cameroons Plantation Area
• III Mombasa—A Modern Colonial Municipality
• IV The Restructuring of Social Relationships
• V Social Stratification in Gwelo
• VI Educated Africans: some Conceptual and Terminological Problems
• VII An Expenditure Study of the Congolese Évolués of Leopoldville, Belgian Congo
• VIII Mieux-Être et Promotion sociale chez les Salariés africains de Brazzaville
• IX Two Small Groups in Avenue 21: Some Aspects of the System of Social Relations in a Remote Corner of Stanleyville, Belgian Congo
• X Kinship, Friendship, and the Network of Relations in Kisenyi, Kampala
• XI Labour Migration as a Positive Factor in the Continuity of Tonga Tribal Society
• XII Kahama Township, Western Province, Tanganyika
• XIII Parenté et Affinités ethniques dans l’écologie du ‘Grand Quartier’ de New-Bell, Douala
• XIV Changes in the Composition and Status of Kin Groups in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia
• XV Trade and the Role of Wife in a Modern West African Town
• XVI Second Generation Migrants in Ghana and the Ivory Coast
• XVII Family Life Among the Yoruba, in Lagos, Nigeria
• XVIII Social Change and the Stability of African Marriage in Northern Rhodesia
• Index