African Islands

African Islands
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher:
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 158046954X

Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories of islands off the African coast

West African Islands

West African Islands
Author: Alfred Burdon Ellis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1885
Genre: Africa, West
ISBN:

The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Author: Jacqueline Knörr
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785330705

For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social phenomena. These accounts show a region that, while still grappling with the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade, is both shaped by and an important actor within ever-denser global networks, exhibiting consistent transformation and creative adaptation.

West African Studies Conflict Networks in North and West Africa

West African Studies Conflict Networks in North and West Africa
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2021-03-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9264455906

Conflicts in North and West Africa have become more violent and widespread than in the past. They have also become more difficult to resolve due to the complex relationships between a growing number of belligerents with diverging agendas. This report maps conflict networks and the evolution of rivalries and alliances in 21 North and West African countries.

Exorcising Devils from the Throne

Exorcising Devils from the Throne
Author: Albertino Francisco
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0875868460

This political treatise is a passionate portrait of the nation of Sao Tome and Principe (STP) and an analysis of the specific problems of this small island cluster, a beautiful post-colonial country which is slowly but surely being sunk by a battle of politics and perks. Charting the nation's fortunes since achieving independence from Portugal in 1975, the authors describe a leadership so corrupt and inept as to appear possessed by an evil demon.

Hydrology and Water Resources of Africa

Hydrology and Water Resources of Africa
Author: M. Shahin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2006-04-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0306480654

Africa, the cradle of many old civilizations, is the second largest world continent, and the homeland of nearly one-eighth of the world population. Despite Africa’s richness in natural resources, the average income per person, after excluding a few countries, is the lowest all over the world, and the percentage of inhabitants infected with contagious diseases is the highest. Development of Africa to help accommodate the ever-increasing population and secure a reasonable living standard to all inhabitants, though an enormous challenge is extremely necessary. Water is the artery of life, without it all living creatures on earth cannot survive. As such, a thorough knowledge of the meteorological and hydrological processes influencing the yield and quality of the water resources, surface and subsurface, and their distribution and variability in time and space is unavoidable for the overall development of any part of the world. It is highly probable that the said knowledge is at present a top priority to Africa, a continent that has been for so long-and probably still-devastated by the endless ambitions of colonial powers not to forget the corruption and destruction practiced by the internal powers, at least in some countries. The present book “Hydrology and Water Resources of Africa” is written with the aim of bringing together in one volume a fair amount of knowledge any professional involved in hydrology and water resources of Africa needs to know.

The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589

The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589
Author: Toby Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139503588

The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity and the re-organization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable and the consequences in Africa and beyond.