Author: Émile Théodore Joseph Hubert BanningPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385522730
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Africa and the Brussels Geographical Conference
Author: Émile Théodore Joseph Hubert BanningPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385522730
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Africa and the Brussels Geographical Conference
Author: Émile BanningPublisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Imagining the Congo
Author: K. DunnPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 140397926X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Understanding the current civil war in the Congo requires an examination of how the Congo's identity has been imagined over time. Imagining the Congo historicizes and contextualizes the constructions of the Congo's identity in order to analyze the political implications of that identity, looking in detail at four historical periods in which the identity of the Congo was contested, with numerous forces attempting to produce and attach meanings to its territory and people. Dunn looks specifically at how what he calls 'imaginings' of the Congo have allowed the current state of affairs there to develop, but he also looks at the broader conceptual question of how the concept of identity has developed and become important in recent international relations scholarship.
European Atrocity, African Catastrophe
Author: Martin EwansPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700715893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This narrative of the creation, development and collapse both of King Leopold's regime, and of the Belgian colony that replaced it, provides insight into the nature of European colonialism in Africa and the consequences for Europe itself.
Sweden-Norway at the Berlin Conference 1884-85. History, National Identity-Making and Sweden's Relations with Africa
Author: David NilssonPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171067388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"The image of Sweden is one of a small, democratic and peace-loving country without the moral burden of a colonial past. However, in this Current African Issues publication, the notion that Sweden lacks a colonial past in Africa is brought into question. At the Berlin Conference 1884-85, the rules for colonisation of Africa were agreed upon among a handful of white men. With the blessing of King Oscar II, the united kingdoms of Sweden-Norway participated in the Berlin conference, ratified the resulting convention and signed a trade agreement with King Leopold's International Congo Association. Thereafter, hundreds of Swedish militaries, seamen and missionaries took an active part in the brutal colonial project in the Congo. What was Sweden-Norway really doing at the Berlin Conference and in the ensuing Scramble for Africa ? Is it now time to re-assess Swedish identity in relation to Africa, an identity so far centered on colonial innocence ? Dr DAVID NILSSON is a researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research focuses on global long term perspectives on sustainable development in Africa." -- Abstract.
Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa
Author: Robert Aleksander MaryksPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004347151
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Protestants entering Africa in the nineteenth century sought to learn from earlier Jesuit presence in Ethiopia and southern Africa. The nineteenth century was itself a century of missionary scramble for Africa during which the Jesuits encountered their Protestant counterparts as both sought to evangelize the African native. Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa, edited by Robert Alexander Maryks and Festo Mkenda, S.J., presents critical reflections on the nature of those encounters in southern Africa and in Ethiopia, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Fernando Po. Though largely marked by mutual suspicion and outright competition, the encounters also reveal personal appreciations and support across denominational boundaries and thus manifest salient lessons for ecumenical encounters even in our own time. This volume is the result of the second Boston College International Symposium on Jesuit Studies held at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya) in 2016. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, it is available in Open Access.
European Atrocity, African Catastrophe
Author: Sir Martin EwansPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317849078
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There is a broad consensus among those who are concerned with Africa that the plight of the continent is approaching the catastrophic. Partly the roots of the problem are historical, stemming from the exploitation and colonisation of the continent by European powers. An appreciation of the history of the relationship between Europe and Africa, a major episode of which this book examines, is indispensable to an understanding of the continent's present predicament. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries King Leopold II of the Belgians established a colony in Africa, which, as the Congo Free State, became a byword for unremitting exploitation and widespread atrocities. This book describes the creation, the development and the collapse both of this regime and of the Belgian colony that replaced it. Conclusions are drawn about the nature of European colonialism in Africa and the consequences for Europe itself.
The Athenaeum
Author: Catalogue of the Reference and Lending Departments: African, foreign and J. O. Smith collections
Author: Port Elizabeth Public Library (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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