Willing Migrants: Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848-1960

by Francois Manchuelle and Martin A. Klein

Book Overview

Eighty-five percent of Black African migrants to France come from a single ethnic group in a single region of West Africa. The Soninke have the oldest tradition of labor migration within Africa and were also probably the first itinerant traders of West Africa; an important proportion continue to be merchants today.

The first major study of the Soninke labor migration within Africa and to France, Willing Migrants is based upon critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821412027
• ISBN13: 9780821412022
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"