Periodic and daily markets in West Africa

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20064458
AutoresB W Hodder (autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Páginas347-358
Data de publicação2018-09-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoDevelopment of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429487552-19
OpenAlexW2924794728
ISBN9780429487552
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5

The simplest yet at the same time most significant classification of markets in West Africa is one which distinguishes between periodic and non-periodic markets. The range of periodicity varies from one part of the region to another. In Yorubaland, for instance, one can distinguish a periodicity based on the 4-day week, which occurs also in many other parts of southern West Africa. One of the two major differences between periodic markets and daily markets is that whereas daily markets are most characteristic of towns, periodic markets occur in all kinds of settlements, or even in open country. The bulk of the periodic markets of West Africa are certainly rural in their location. In the language of central place studies, the whole trend can be seen as the crystallization of central-place-type institutions about the market-place. It is true that market forms only part of the total complex of institutions which comprise the central business districts of urban centres

Economics · Geography · African history and culture studies