Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa

Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa

Subtitle: 
Risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
Place: 
New York
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Phys descriptions: 
xvi, 292 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Date published: 
2010
Record type: 
Book/Monograph
Region: 
Africa
Western Africa
Editor: 
M. MacLean, Lauren
Subject: 
RURAL CONDITIONS.
VILLAGES
BORDERLANDS
GHANA
COTE D'IVOIRE
ISBN: 
9780521192965
Call No: 
316.334.55(667:666.8) MAC
Abstract: 

Examines historically how the state role in mediating risk transforms reciprocity and citizenship in similar villages on either side of the Ghana-Cote d'Ivoire border.

Language: 
English
Country focus: 
Ghana
Series: 
Cambridge studies in comparative politics.

CITATION: . Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa edited by M. MacLean, Lauren . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2010. - Available at: https://library.au.int/informal-institutions-and-citizenship-rural-africa-3