Falola, Toyin

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African Diaspora Archaeology NewsletterVolume 12Issue 2 June 2009 Article 376-1-2009Movements, Borders, and Identities in AfricaToyin FalolaUniversity of Texas, Austin, toyin.falola@mail.utexas.eduAribidesi UsmanArizona State University, Aribidesi.Usman@asu.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adanThis New Books is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in African DiasporaArchaeology Newsletter by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contactscholarworks@library.umass.edu.Recommended CitationFalola, Toyin and Usman, Aribidesi (2009) "Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa," African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter:Vol. 12 : Iss. 2 , Article 37.Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adan/vol12/iss2/37New Book Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa Edited by Toyin Falola and Aribidesi Usman Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora University of Rochester Press, Cloth, 332 pp., ISBN-10: 1580462960, ISBN-13: 978-1580462969, May 2009.  Description from the Publisher:  Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over centuries, in groups or as individuals, Africans have been forced to leave their homes to escape unfavorable natural, social, or political circumstances, or simply to seek better lives elsewhere. This essential volume establishes the centrality of human migration and movement to the evolution of African societies. Using oral, archaeological, and written sources, and focusing on various geographical areas, the contributors show that migration is a multifaceted phenomenon, historically varied in nature and character. Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa incorporates carefully selected case studies drawn from across the continent, and provides a broad but insightful overview of migration and its complex relationships to slavery, commerce, religion, architecture, material culture, poverty, diaspora life and identity formation, and the development of states and societies on the continent. Taken as a whole, this collection offers a groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era. Contributors: Edmund Abaka, Maurice Amutabi, Toyin Falola, Ghislaine Geloin, Issiaka Mande, Jean-Luc Martineau, Pius S. Nyambara, Akinwumi Ogundiran, Adisa Ogunfolakan, Olatunji Ojo, Brigitte Kowalski Oshineye, Meshack Owino, Gerald Steyn, and Aribidesi Usman. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History and Distinuished Teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. Aribidesi Usman is associate professor of African and African American studies and anthropology at Arizona State University. 1Falola and Usman: Movements, Borders, and Identities in AfricaPublished by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2009

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