Bibliograph

Migrants and Strangers in an African City, Exile, Dignity, Belonging, Bruce Whitehouse

Type

Label

Migrants and Strangers in an African City, Exile, Dignity, Belonging, Bruce Whitehouse

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Migrants and Strangers in an African City

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Bruce Whitehouse

Sub title

Exile, Dignity, Belonging

Summary

In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world

Target audience

adult

Classification