Article: A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984: The Potts-Johnsons of Port Harcourt and Their Heirs.(Book Review)

A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984: The Potts-Johnsons of Port Harcourt and Their Heirs. By Mac Dixon-Fyle. (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 279. $65.00.)

Across the colonial landscape of western Africa, small groups of outsiders or "strangers" built dynamic communities that played outsized roles in shaping economic, cultural, and political life. These regional diasporas generated networks of ethnic and kinship interconnection that defied imperial boundaries and linked colonial dependencies and in the process created a series of new identities closely associated with colonialism and the opposition to it. None of these ...

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