This is an account of the incorporation of 'traditional' Dyula communities into a modern town.

List of figures, maps and tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: the people and the problem; Part I. The Legacy of the Past: 2. Dyula and Senufo; 3. Warriors, scholars and traders; 4. Clansmen and kinsmen; 5. The mechanics of marriage; Part II. Responses to Change: 6. The seeds of change; 7. Occupation, migration and education; 8. Being Dyula in the twentieth century; 9. Dyula Islam: the new orthodoxy; 10. Kinship in a changing world; 11. Conclusions: Heraclitus' paradox; Notes; Bibliography; Index.