Sabo Quarter
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 82 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5113-2956-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Migrant Hausa settlements in Yorubaland, popularly known as Sabo, are small geographic areas where Hausa migrants conjugate together to create a distinctive socio-political quarter to foster their cultural heritage and economic interests in the midst of a different ethnic group, while at the same time owing some informal contractual obligations to the Yoruba. The rise of ubiquitous Hausa settlements in some major Yoruba cities is mostly attributed to the inter-ethnic or long distance trading networks that developed overtime in West Africa. The exact time-line is unknown but span a millennium. In the early period of the last century, a stream of migrant Hausa settlers began to settle in major Yoruba cities, as a result of their desire to embrace their traditional customs and their "different" norms, they preferred to own their own space in foreign towns under the rulership of a Sarkin Hausawa. However, the quarters became avenues which Hausa...