Book description
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.
"A worthy contribution to the growing fields of immigration
studies, transnationalism, and globalization and a very readable
analysis of the dynamics of contemporary life in an African
city." -Phyllis M. Martin, Indiana University
Bruce Whitehouse is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University.
