TY  - JOUR
T1  - Moving While Keeping-on-a Social Anthropological Study of Mobility in African
AU - Chidubem Nwaogaidu, John AU - Chigozie Ugwuanyi, F. AU - God Ikenegbu, Thank 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
SP  - 77
EP  - 84
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2020.77.84
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2020.77.84
KW  - Mobility
KW  -identity
KW  -kinship
KW  -competition
KW  -solidarity
KW  -understandable
KW  -movement
AB  - In Africa, mobility is an important aspect of
identity struggle that is understandable through external
domains of social relationship. Individuals or groups
engage in a competitive struggle for affluence and
influence through movement. That would perhaps give
them the potentials to compete and demonstrate their
strength with other members of the society. Besides, there
is never a permanent relocation in African society.
Periodic returns to the land of origin are encouraged
which ‘keep’ people abreast with their socio-cultural
environment. The returns are mainly during festive
periods such as Christmas, new yam festivals, Muo
festivals, marriages and funerals. The article explores the
interconnection between the ‘moved’ and the ‘stayed’ in
the society that ‘keep-on’ the kinship network.
Ethnographical studies on Igbo kinship and many other
exploratory research studies done on Igbo culture and
tradition served as theoretical and methodical framework.
Through the intersection of Lee’s theory on migration,
this study therefore analyzes the rationale behind the
concept of ‘moving while keeping-on’ in Igbo society by
identifying and qualifying their values in socio-cultural
expansion.
ER  -