Life Before the Drought
eBook - ePub

Life Before the Drought

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Life Before the Drought

About this book

Little attention had been paid to the realities of life in the Savanna-Sahel of West Africa before the drought of 1968-74, but this book, originally published in 1984 provides a set of authoritative accounts of the way in which the inhabitants cope with what outsiders perceive as a harsh environment. The peoples of the Savanna-Sahel are shown to be developers of strategies and technologies to manage their resources. Their understanding of the environment enables them to contribute substantially to any plans for economic and ecological recovery in the region. Their cooperative modes of life lead to greater social complexity and capacity for survival. Geographers, anthropologists and social historians should find the interdisciplinary human ecological approach of the book appealing. Development economists and rural planners will find the chapters on land-use patterns, and resource use particularly valuable.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Preface
  9. Table of Contents
  10. List of tables
  11. 1 Introduction: life and poverty in the Savanna–Sahel zones
  12. 2 Power, prosperity, and social inequality in Songhay (1464–1591)
  13. 3 Life before the drought: a human ecological perspective
  14. 4 Nomads, farmers, and merchants: old strategies in a changing Sudan
  15. 5 Differential development in Machakos District, Kenya
  16. 6 The demise of the moral economy: food and famine in a Sudano-Sahelian region in historical perspective
  17. 7 Changing land-use patterns in the fadamas of northern Nigeria
  18. 8 The Fulani in a development context: the relevance of cultural traditions for coping with change and crisis
  19. Contributors
  20. Index