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By Gracia Clark

ISBN-10: 0226107795

ISBN-13: 9780226107790

ISBN-10: 0226107809

ISBN-13: 9780226107806

In the main accomplished research so far of the realm of outdoors marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark reports the marketplace ladies of Kumasi, Ghana, that allows you to comprehend the most important social forces that generate, retain, and consistently reshape the transferring marketplace dynamics.

Probably the biggest of its style in West Africa, the Kumasi significant industry homes ladies whose positions fluctuate from hawkers of food and inexpensive synthetic items to strong wholesalers, who regulate the stream of vital staples. Drawing on greater than 4 years of box learn, in which she labored along numerous influential marketplace "Queens", Clark explains the industrial, political, gender, and ethnic complexities focused on the operation of and examines the resourcefulness of the marketplace ladies in surviving some of the dangers they in many instances come across, from coups d'etat to continual sabotage in their positions from within.

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