Farewell to farms : de-agrarianisation and employment in Africa

The origins of this book date back to a workshop held at the Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, in May 1994. The authors examine de-agrarianization in Africa, which takes the form of urban migration as well as the expansion of nonagricultural activities in rural areas. An introduction by Deborah Fahy Bryceson is followed by case studies on nonagricultural rural employment in Darfur, Sudan (Hamid el Bashir Ibrahim), the return of landlessness to rural Ethiopia (Yohannes Habtu), the role of nonfarm incomes in rural Hausaland, Nigeria (Kate Meagher and Abdul Raufu Mustapha), household fortunes in the urban peripheries of Northern Nigeria (Mohammed A. Iliya and Ken Swindell), economic activities of the poor in Accra, Ghana (Meine Pieter van Dijk), household employment patterns in Kenya's Coast Province (Dick Foeken), the rural informal sector in Tanzania (Mboya S.D. Bagachwa), nonfarm activities and gender in Zimbabwe (Rudo B. Gaidzanwa), rural diversification in Zimbabwe (Poul Ove Pedersen), and entrepreneurship and tradition on the South African Highveld (Leslie Bank). Two contributions deal with continental policy issues: rural industries in Africa (Ian Livingstone), and labour diversification in rural Africa and the implications for public works programmes (Tesfaye Teklu). A concluding chapter by Deborah Fahy Bryceson draws the emerging lessons together