MARKETS OF MEMORIES Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational ‎ Vintage groups of enterprising Yoruba traders

groups of enterprising Yoruba traders from a few towns in Western Nigeria established a remarkably successful trading network throughout the Gold Coast (Ghana)

ISBN-10 : 143283987X

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Paperback : 426 pages

Collected in this book are dozens of the most recent

MARKETS OF MEMORIES Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational ‎ Vintage groups of enterprising Yoruba tradersMarkets of Memories combines the analysis of rhetorical (and dialectical) structures and the exploration of contact zones (and their power dynamics). In effect, the book explores the movement of history, and its interpretive narratives, from two perspectives the postcolonial (with its central colonizer colonized binary) and the transnational (with its cross cultural multiformity). While one often tends to be vertical and the other horizontal in