Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community

Deborah Pellow

University of Chicago Press, December 2002

Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict & Collaboration

Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community

"Landlords and Lodgers" analyzes the results of a long-term study of a Ghanaian zongo, or “stranger quarter”—a place of refuge for Hausa migrants from northern Nigeria who have relocated to the city of Accra. Deborah Pellow, professor emeritus of anthropology, explores the relationships among community members both in terms of the built structures—rooms, doors, communal structures, and hallways—and of the social networks, institutions, and routine activities that define this unique urban neighborhood. This volume will be useful to students and scholars of the relationships between architecture, migration, and social change.