| Author | : Mary H. Kingsley |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2020-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3752385545 |
Reproduction of the original: West African Studies by Mary H. Kingsley
West African Studies
| Author | : Mary Kingsley |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 594 |
| Release | : 2013-04-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1136255036 |
Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
Themes in West Africa’s History
| Author | : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 459 |
| Release | : 2006-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0821445669 |
There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major topics, as well as a short list of recommended reading, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. The first part of the book examines paths to a West African past, including perspectives from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two probes environment, society, and agency and historical change through essays on the slave trade, social inequality, religious interaction, poverty, disease, and urbanization. Part three sheds light on contemporary West Africa in exploring how economic and political developments have shaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. Themes in West Africa’s History represents a range of intellectual views and interpretations from leading scholars on West Africa’s history. It will appeal to college undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the way it draws on different disciplines and expertise to bring together key themes in West Africa’s history, from prehistory to the present.
West Africa
| Author | : Eugene L. Mendonsa |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 668 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
This introductory book covers West Africa's history, social organization, and contemporary setting. It analyzes the many present-day problems facing West Africans such as the lack of development, dependency on economic relations with wealthy countries, poor governance, interference by the military in civilian affairs, corruption, and the lack of functioning democratic governments. This book also shows how West African indigenous civilization developed its humanitarian, democratic, and communalistic nature. Traditional political processes and ancestral customs are put forth as ways of solving West Africa's modern problems. Divided into three main parts: "The Setting and Social Organization," "The History of West Africa," and "The Modern Era," the main objective of this textbook is to teach students about the depth of African civilization and how its principles can be used to address modern-day problems in West Africa. Mendonsa expresses the opinion that in order to solve current problems plaguing the region, a knowledge of history, African culture, and ancient African beliefs is crucial. The Teacher's Manual includes chapter outlines and summaries, key points, sample questions, and suggested films and websites.
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.
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
| Author | : Bruce S. Hall |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2011-06-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781107002876 |
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory and uncivilized banditry. This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in one important place along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert: the Niger Bend in northern Mali. Using Arabic documents held in Timbuktu, as well as local colonial sources in French and oral interviews, Bruce S. Hall reconstructs an African intellectual history of race that long predated colonial conquest, and which has continued to orient inter-African relations ever since.
Ouidah
| Author | : Robin Law |
| Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780852554975 |
Ouidah, an indigenous African town in the modern Republic of Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region, and the second most important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the export of slaves for the trans- Atlantic trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the 'Slave Coast'. Exporting over a million slaves, it was second only to Luanda in Angola for the embarkation of slaves in the whole of Africa. The author's central concerns are the organization of the African end of the slave trade, and the impact participation in the trade had on the historical development of the African societies involved. It shifts the focus from the viewpoint of the Dahomian monarchy, represented in previous studies, to the coast. Here is a well documented case study of pre-colonial urbanism, of the evolution of a merchant community, and in particular the growth of a group of private traders whose relations with the Dahomian monarchy grew increasingly problematic over time. North America: Ohio U Press
West African Popular Theatre
| Author | : Karin Barber |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 1997-06-22 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0253028078 |
" . . . a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A seminal contribution to the fields of performance studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. " —Margaret Drewal "A fine book. The play texts are treasures." —Richard Bauman African popular culture is an arena where the tensions and transformations of colonial and post-colonial society are played out, offering us a glimpse of the view from below in Africa. This book offers a comparative overview of the history, social context, and style of three major West African popular theatre genres: the concert party of Ghana, the concert party of Togo, and the traveling popular theatre of western Nigeria.
From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel
| Author | : Gregory Mann |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107016541 |
This book explains the shift from the government of empires to that of NGOs in the region just south of the Sahara. It describes the ambitions of newly independent African states, their political experiments, and the challenges they faced. No other book places black American activism, Amnesty International, and CARE together in the history of African politics.
