Home-town linkages and local development in south-western Nigeria: whose agenda? What impact?

Author:

Trager Lillian

Abstract

This article examines home-town linkages among the Ije§a Yoruba of south-western Nigeria, focusing on their implications for local development activity. The author argues that elite non-residents play an especially important role in determining the agenda of activities and that, despite limitations and constraints, the maintenance of home town linkages by members of the elite provides their community with crucial access to financial and other resources. The motives for the continued maintenance of these ties are discussed. Finally, the article provides a perspective for comparison with research in other parts of the world, where rural-urban linkages primarily connect migrants with family and household; in the case considered here, involvement with the community as a whole is equally important.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Anthropology,Geography, Planning and Development

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