Author: Alfred Henry BarrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Fifty Years in Western Africa
Author: Alfred Henry BarrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
An Economic History of West Africa
Author: A. G. HopkinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317868943
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This is the standard account of the economic history of the vast area conventionally known as West Africa. Ranging from prehistoric time to independence it covers the former French as well as British colonies.
How The West Was Lost
Author: Dambisa MoyoPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141924330
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue of fundamentally flawed economic policies. It is these decisions that, along the way, have resulted in an economic and geo-political see-saw, which is now poised to tip in favour of the emerging world. By forging closer ties with the emerging economies, rethinking trade barriers, overhauling their tax systems to encourage savings rather than ravenous consumption, and specifically addressing the three essential ingredients for growth (capital, labour and technology) it might yet still be possible for the West to firmly get back in the race.
Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions
Author: Rev. Robert Hamill NassauPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465517103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
That stream of the Negro race which is known ethnologically as “Bantu,” occupies all of the southern portion of the African continent below the fourth degree of north latitude. It is divided into a multitude of tribes, each with its own peculiar dialect. All these dialects are cognate in their grammar. Some of them vary only slightly in their vocabulary. In others the vocabulary is so distinctly different that it is not understood by tribes only one hundred miles apart, while that of others a thousand miles away may be intelligible. In their migrations the tribes have been like a river, with its windings, currents swift or slow; there have been even, in places, back currents; and elsewhere quiet, almost stagnant pools. But they all—from the Divala at Kamerun on the West Coast across to the Kiswahile at Zanzibar on the East, and from Buganda by the Victoria Nyanza at the north down to Zulu in the south at the Cape—have a uniformity in language, tribal organization, family customs, judicial rules and regulations, marriage ceremonies, funeral rites, and religious beliefs and practice. Dissimilarities have crept in with mixture among themselves by intermarriage, the example of foreigners, with some forms of foreign civilization and education, degradation by foreign vice, elevation by Christianity, and compulsion by foreign governments. As a description of Bantu sociology, I give the following outline which was offered some years ago, in reply to inquiries sent to members of the Gabun and Corisco Mission living at Batanga, by the German Government, in its laudable effort to adapt, as far as consistent with justice and humanity, its Kamerun territorial government to the then existing tribal regulations and customs of the tribes living in the Batanga region. This information was obtained by various persons from several sources, but especially from prominent native chiefs, all of them men of intelligence. In their general features these statements were largely true also for all the other tribes in the Equatorial Coast region, and for most of the interior Bantu tribes now pressing down to the Coast. They were more distinctly descriptive of Batanga and the entire interior at the time of their formulation. But in the ten years that have since passed, a stranger would find that some of them are no longer exact. Foreign authority has removed or changed or sapped the foundations of many native customs and regulations, while it has not fully brought in the civilization of Christianity. The result in some places, in this period of transition, has been almost anarchy,—making a despotism, as under Belgian misrule in the so-called Kongo “Free” State; or commercial ruin, as under French monopoly in their Kongo-Français; and general confusion, under German hands, due to the arbitrary acts of local officials and their brutal black soldiery.
The Battle of Adwa
Author: Raymond JonasPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674062795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule. Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in modern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Americas-personalities like Menelik, a biblically inspired provincial monarch who consolidated Ethiopia's throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg, the emperor's close advisor. The Ethiopians' brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the Europeanization of Africa. Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.
The Story of Fifty Years' Mission Work in Chhota Nagpur
Author: Eyre ChattertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chota Nāgpur (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: J. Scott-KeltiePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270433
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1571
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-book
Author: West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native
Author: James Africanus Beale HortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native
Author: James Africanus Beale HortonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108028594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A Sierra Leonean doctor's attack on Victorian ideas about race and his call for increased self-rule in West Africa.