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Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria

Many studies on African communities tend to address how identities are embedded in peoples' practices and cultures. However, little attention has been paid to the indigenous business communities in the African continent, particularly in Nigeria. The study is thus concerned with addressing this...

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Main Authors: Salihu, Hauwa, Kaur, Sheena
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Published: Routledge 2024
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spelling my.um.eprints.460242024-07-19T07:27:47Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/46024/ Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria Salihu, Hauwa Kaur, Sheena H Social Sciences (General) PE English Many studies on African communities tend to address how identities are embedded in peoples' practices and cultures. However, little attention has been paid to the indigenous business communities in the African continent, particularly in Nigeria. The study is thus concerned with addressing this research gap from an interdisciplinary perspective using `community of practice' (CoP) and `acts-of-identity' frameworks to explore how participants develop, practise and negotiate identity in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community, Nigeria. Using qualitative ethnographic methods, five focus groups and 18 individual participants were selected through snowball sampling. The findings obtained offer social and pedagogical implications and reveal the significance of sociocultural, sociohistorical and sociopsychological backgrounds in projecting, focusing and diffusing identities. For the most part, macro influences and micro practices determined members' negotiation of their identities. Despite the ethnographic fieldworker's constraints, this study provides implications for similar under-represented and muffled communities as it reveals how identity - as an ongoing phenomenon - is socially constructed, developed and practised. Routledge 2024-01 Article PeerReviewed Salihu, Hauwa and Kaur, Sheena (2024) Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 42 (1). pp. 35-48. ISSN 1607-3614, DOI https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2184705 <https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2184705>. 10.2989/16073614.2023.2184705
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
PE English
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PE English
Salihu, Hauwa
Kaur, Sheena
Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria
description Many studies on African communities tend to address how identities are embedded in peoples' practices and cultures. However, little attention has been paid to the indigenous business communities in the African continent, particularly in Nigeria. The study is thus concerned with addressing this research gap from an interdisciplinary perspective using `community of practice' (CoP) and `acts-of-identity' frameworks to explore how participants develop, practise and negotiate identity in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community, Nigeria. Using qualitative ethnographic methods, five focus groups and 18 individual participants were selected through snowball sampling. The findings obtained offer social and pedagogical implications and reveal the significance of sociocultural, sociohistorical and sociopsychological backgrounds in projecting, focusing and diffusing identities. For the most part, macro influences and micro practices determined members' negotiation of their identities. Despite the ethnographic fieldworker's constraints, this study provides implications for similar under-represented and muffled communities as it reveals how identity - as an ongoing phenomenon - is socially constructed, developed and practised.
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author Salihu, Hauwa
Kaur, Sheena
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Kaur, Sheena
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title Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria
title_short Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria
title_full Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria
title_fullStr Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Identity development and practices in the Kano Kantin Kwari business community in Nigeria
title_sort identity development and practices in the kano kantin kwari business community in nigeria
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