A.B. Mountjoy and C. Embleton, Africa, a geographical study, Hutchinson, 1965, p. 135.
2.
W. Bascon, 'Urbanism as a traditional African pattern', Sociological Review, vol. 7, no. 1, July 1959.
3.
K. Davis and H. Golden, 'Urbanisation and the development of pre-industrial areas', in P. K. Hatt and A. J. Reiss (eds.), Cities and Society, Free Press of Glencoe, 1957.
4.
Nigel Oram, Towns in Africa, London, 1965 , p. 6; R.W. Steel, 'The towns of tropical Africa', in Essays on African Population, ed. by K. M. Barbour and R. M. Prothero, London, 1961, pp. 256-8.
5.
'Detribalisation' is not bad in itself and may be considered inevitable. Nevertheless the process of change is rarely easy.
6.
H.F. Alderfer, Local Government in Developing Countries, McGraw Hill, 1964, pp. 213-16.
7.
' D. Grove and L. Huszar, The Towns of Ghana, Ghana Universities Press, Accra, 1964, p. 1.
8.
A regional government field unit.
9.
See map, page 150.
10.
For a general discussion of the administrative problems of resettlement see J.P.P. Gibbs, 'Some problems of resettlement of the displaced population' part III of a symposium on Harnessing the Niger, Proceedings of the Science Association of Nigeria, vol. 5, 1962.
11.
ibid, p. 49.
12.
Simulium damnosum.
13.
Gibbs, op. cit, p. 49.
14.
'The High Dam', The Geographical Magazine , vol. 38, no. 3, 1965, pp. 176-7.
15.
Most farmers have other part-time or out-of-season occupations, such as labouring.
16.
K. Klinkenberg and F.H. Hilderbrand, Report on the semi-detailed soil survey of areas near the new town site of Bussa, Soil Survey Bulletin No. 27, Institute of Agricultural Research, Zaria, 1964 .
17.
Report of the Committee on the Future Administration of Urban Areas, Zaria, 1953.
18.
Based on the traditional political system of the Emirate of Borgu.
19.
" Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Town and Country Planning, 3rd. ed., London, 1961, p. 104.
20.
M.J. Campbell , Law and Practice of Local Governmertt in Northern Nigeria, London, 1963, pp. 157-8.
21.
M.J. Campbell and J. Wilson, Problems of Urbanisation in Northern Nigeria , Zaria, 1963, p. 5.
22.
Modern materials (e.g. concrete, tin and asbestos) are clearly not always suitable for traditional architectural forms (e.g. few windows, enclosed compounds and high walls).
23.
E.O.W. Hunt , An Experiment in Resettlement, Kaduna, 1951.
