The Nature of the Path
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Introduction: Crossing the black earth -- The roads into Igbø Ilø : the making of an Ọhọri identity -- Roads to subversion : displaying independence and displacing authority in the early colonial era -- Going to the greens seller : Ọhọri communal expansion in the 1920s and 1930s -- "It has become a joy to go to Tollou" : reinterpreting the tools of French colonial développement -- Cementing identities : negotiating independence in a changing landscape -- Conclusion: Breathing with the road
