Eaters of the Dry Season

By David Rain

Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Labor, Wanderarbeit, Conditions économiques, Droughts, Sahel, economic conditions, Sécheresses, Economic conditions, Economic history, Internal Migration, Migration intérieure, Migration, internal

Description: An examination of the changing geography of seasonal mobility in the African Sahel. Against a contextual backdrop of demographic, ecological, and political-economic changes in the region, the text dispels the idea that human mobility is a byproduct of Western technological advances.