Ghana: Internal Transmigrants: A Dagomba Diaspora

Ghana: Internal Transmigrants: A Dagomba Diaspora Deborah Pellow, 2011   In this article, I focus on a tiny elite community of Dagomba from Ghana's Northern Region. These men (and a handful of women) were among the first to attend secondary school once it was established in the North. Highly visible professionals, these Dagomba are internal migrants, whose new world in Accra is socially and spatially vastly different from the old in the hometown area of Dagbon. Members of this diaspora are...

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