Population, Prosperity And Poverty: Rural Kano, 1900 And 1970

Features of Population, Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Kano, 1900 and 1970

This book which reports on fieldwork done in an exceedingly densely populated locality of rural Hausaland Dorayi in 19711972 is complete in itself In it Dr Hill compares and contrasts Dorayi with the much less densely populated village of her previous study with special reference to the consequences of high and persistent population density she also attempts to interpret the presentday stability of this stagnating impoverished overcrowded community in terms of socioeconomic conditions in rural Kano Emirate generally in very early colonial times utilising archival as well as field material Some of the consequences of persistent population pressure are most surprising an example is the brake it puts on outward migration they will be eagerly studied by demographers who commonly search in vain for relevant socioeconomic studies particularly any dealing with the plight of the most impoverished who tend to get overlooked