African Roads to Prosperity

People En Route to Socio-Cultural and Economic Transformations

Bibliographic Data

ID20072335
AuthorsAkinyinka Akinyoade (0000-0001-5165-9444, University of Cape Coast), Jan-Bart Gewald (0000-0002-2399-9852, University of Cape Coast)
Year2015
Pages1-14
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAfrican Roads to Prosperity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004306059_002
OpenAlexW2216243281
ISBN9789004306059
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited125

This volume is the result of a joint collaborative research project undertaken at the African Studies Centre with colleagues in Africa that was entitled 'Roads to Prosperity and Their Social Zones of Transit' . The project sought to gain an understanding of the emergence and transformation of certain places in Africa that became marked as spaces of transit for people in search of better socioeconomic prospects. When people travelled long distances from locations to reach destinations that were expected to place them on the road to prosperity, many became stuck halfway-either on their way out or on their way back. The thousands of would-be African migrants to Europe trapped and stranded on the North African shores of the Mediterranean, the Yoruba settlements of Ivory Coast and Ghana, and the communities of Nyassas throughout southern Africa are cases in point

Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Political science · Prosperity · African history and culture studies

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