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An African Village in Transition: research into behaviour patterns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

George H. Axinn  and
Nancy W. Axinn
George H. Axinn
Affiliation:
Center for International Programs, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Nancy W. Axinn
Affiliation:
Center for International Programs, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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Even the more remote and isolated villages of dynamic and disparate Africa are changing rapidly. To understand this transition, a detailed descriptive record of human activity enables comparisons to be made of different groups and of one group at different times.

The hourly, daily, and yearly behaviour patterns of rural people living in the Nsukka division of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria (now Biafra) are briefly described below. This information is based on field research carried on during 1966 in eight clusters of compounds near Nsukka town. At the time that the study was made, this was a rapidly developing Igbo village 43 miles from the regional capital city of Enugu.

Type
Africana
Information
The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , October 1969 , pp. 527 - 533
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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