Author: Mary Kingsley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136255036
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
West African Studies
Author: Mary Kingsley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136255036
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136255036
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Contains important eye-witness accounts by English traders who had many years experience in the Delta area.
West African Studies
Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Themes in West Africa’s History
Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
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 African Studies
Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher: London : Macmillan ; New York : Macmillan Company
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan ; New York : Macmillan Company
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
West African Studies
Author: Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752385545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: West African Studies by Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752385545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: West African Studies by Mary H. Kingsley
West African Studies
Author: Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243644391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243644391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
West Africa
Author: Eugene L. Mendonsa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
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.
West African Studies
Author: Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
Author: Bruce S. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107002876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107002876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.
Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa
Author: Martin A. Klein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521596787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A history of slavery during the 19th and 20th centuries in three former French colonies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521596787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A history of slavery during the 19th and 20th centuries in three former French colonies.