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Routledge Library Editions

URBANIZATION AS A SOCIAL PROCESS

ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Routledge Library Editions
Anthropology and Ethnography

AFRICA

In 26 Volumes

I	Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa	Beattie & Middleton
II	Custom & Politics in Urban Africa	Cohen
III	Urban Ethnicity	Cohen
IV	Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa	Gluckman
V	Death, Property and the Ancestors	Goody
VI	The Family Estate in Africa	Gray & Gulliver
VII	Tradition and Transition in East Africa	Gulliver
VIII	The Human Factor in Changing Africa	Herskovits
IX	African Ecology and Human Evolution	Howell & Bourlire
X	The Nandi of Kenya	Huntingford
XI	Fields of Change among the Iteso of Kenya	Karp
XII	The Niger Journal of Richard and John Lander	Hallett
XIII	Defeating Mau Mau	Leakey
XIV	Mau Mau and the Kikuyu	Leakey
XV	Urbanization as a Social Process	Little
XVI	Family and Social Change in an African City	Marris
XVII	Widows and their Families	Marris
XVIII	Tribes without Rulers	Middleton & Tait
XIX	Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward	Parkin
XX	The Last Trek	Patterson
XXI	Women of Tropical Africa	Paulme
XXII	Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe	Richards
XXIII	Leopards and Leaders	Ruel
XXIV	Western Civilization and the Natives of South Africa	Schapera
XXV	East African Societies	Shorter
XXVI	The Samburu	Spencer

First published in 1974

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1974 Kenneth Little

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Urbanization as a Social Process

ISBN 978-0-415-32994-1

Miniset: Africa

Series: Routledge Library Editions Anthropology and Ethnography

Printed and bound by CPI Antony Rowe, Eastbourne

Urbanization as a social process

An essay on movement and change in contemporary Africa

Kenneth Little

Professor of African Urban Studies University of Edinburgh

First published in 1974
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
Broadway House, 6874 Carter Lane,
London EC4V 5EL and
9 Park Street,
Boston, Mass. 02108, USA
Set in Linotype Times

Kenneth Little 1974
No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without permission from the
publisher, except for the quotation of brief
passages in criticism

ISBN 0 7100 7931 I(c)

ISBN 0 7100 7932 X(p)

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 74 80750

Contents

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank Professor A. L. Epstein and the editors of the Rhodes-Livingstone Journal for permission to quote excerpts from his article entitled The Network and Urban Social Organization. I have also to thank Mrs Elizabeth Mandeville and Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond for permission to draw on their unpublished work and the Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts, for allowing me to reprint nearly two pages of demographic data and to include, in a slightly different form, some portions of my Module, Some Aspects of African Urbanization South of the Sahara.

In addition, my sincere thanks are also due to the Trustees of the Noel Buxton Trust and to the Trustees of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland for the financial assistance they most kindly contributed. This helped substantially with the necessary research and preparation of this book.

Kenneth Little

Edinburgh

Urban life does not draw relatives apart, it draws them together. In our country brothers quarrel over land and property; but in the town there is none to quarrel over and they come to each other for protection.

(Statement by a Luo migrant in Kampala,
quoted by Marguerite Jellicoe, 1968, p.7.)

Map Principal towns discussed in the text

Introduction

I have written this book for two interrelated reasons. First, I believe that the empirical basis of social anthropological methods of study is worth preserving. This is going to be increasingly difficult if the so-called primitive social systems continue to be the main focus of attention and research. True, there are some parts of the world where, isolated from outside contact by mountain ranges and deep forest, small indigenous populations still follow an immemorial way of life. But situations of this kind in, for example, the more remote areas of New Guinea and Brazil, are now relatively rare; and it is very much more common to find that traditional cultures have been penetrated and influenced at nearly all their most strategic points by industrialization and other modernizing forces. Nor does even a high rate of illiteracy necessarily betoken the persistence of traditional forms of social organization.

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