Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author | : Joseph C. Anene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph C. Anene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J.C. Anene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1990-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780237800512 |
A volume of essays compiled to meet the requirements of the WAEC history syllabus. It provides valuable insight and details of many facets of Africa history.
Author | : Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317477499 |
Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated book, beautifully translated from the French edition, the history of Africa in the nineteenth century unfolds from the perspective of Africans themselves rather than the European powers.It was above all a time of tremendous internal change on the African continent. Great jihads of Muslim conquest and conversion swept over West Africa. In the interior, warlords competed to control the internal slave trade. In the east, the sultanate of Zanzibar extended its reach via coastal and interior trade routes. In the north, Egypt began to modernize while Algeria was colonized. In the south, a series of forced migrations accelerated, spurred by the progression of white settlement.Through much of the century African societies assimilated and adapted to the changes generated by these diverse forces. In the end, the West's technological advantage prevailed and most of Africa fell under European control and lost its independence. Yet only by taking into account the rich complexity of this tumultuous past can we fully understand modern Africa from the colonial period to independence and the difficulties of today.
Author | : Sandra E. Greene |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2011-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 025322294X |
Slavery in Africa existed for hundreds of years before it was abolished in the late 19th century. Yet, we know little about how enslaved individuals, especially those who never left Africa, talked about their experiences. Collecting never before published or translated narratives of Africans from southeastern Ghana, Sandra E. Greene explores how these writings reveal the thoughts, emotions, and memories of those who experienced slavery and the slave trade. Greene considers how local norms and the circumstances behind the recording of the narratives influenced their content and impact. This unprecedented study affords unique insights into how ordinary West Africans understood and talked about their lives during a time of change and upheaval.
Author | : Joseph C. Anene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard J. Reid |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470658983 |
Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounter Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya
Author | : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9780415758345 |
With over two hundred individually signed entries, this Encyclopedia explores the ways in which the peoples of Africa, their polities, states, societies, economies, environments, cultures and arts were transformed during the twentieth century.
Author | : A. Adu Boahen |
Publisher | : London : Longman |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Ghana |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen Rockel |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2006-07-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Much writing about 19th-century East Africa has been distorted by the legacy of post-Enlightenment thought as well as by more insidious racist ideologies. Humanitarian lobbies throughout Western Europe, strongly influenced by positivist ideas, and campaigning to highlight the ravages of the slave trade, condemned Africa in their writings and propaganda to the periphery, outside universal history. Africa was reduced to a continent of slavery, in which the market, entrepreneurship and free wage labour could not exist. These ideas penetrated scholarly works and still survive in some guises. The consequence is that a variety of initiatives and forms of labour organization associated with the long distance trades in ivory and imported cloth have been overlooked by scholars, while the slave paradigm received widespread attention. Utilizing the conceptual tool of crew culture, Rockel documents a large-scale African migrant labour system. Nyamwezi caravan porters from the interior, as well as coastal Zanzibaris and Waungwana, forged a unique way of life in which market values and experience of wage labour and the caravan safari combined with customary standards and notions of honour derived from innovative reconceptualizations of tradition. The safari experience, commercial change, and interactions with peasant and pastoral communities along the trade routes, all contributed to the emergence of a unique East Africa modernity. This book can be read on a variety of levels It is a journey, a labour history, a story of African initiative and adaptation to modernity, and a contribution to a history of Tanzania and East Africa that gives due attention to intersocietal linkages, and networks. Rockel utilizes a variety of methodologies and theoretical approaches derived from neo-Marxist and postcolonial perspectives, as well as Africanist innovations in oral historiography and labour and gender studies. Drawing on such insights, Carriers of Culture develops and expands our understanding of the way workers invent new and unique cultures to make sense of and control the labour process, create support networks including collective leisure activities, maximize and protect economic interests, and manage the labour market. The book is clearly written, and is illustrated with late-19th-century photographs and artwork.
Author | : Richard J. Reid |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
AFRICAN HISTORY. History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of the last two centuries of African history. Author Richard Reid takes us on a thought-provoking and illuminating journey through the slave trade and colonization to the rise of Islam, struggles for independence, and beyond. Readers will see how Africa's rich diversity began to re-emerge during the post-colonial era - and discover the contrasting periods of despair and hope that emerged with it. History of Modern Africa is an essential recounting of the turning points of Africa's past and the myriad strands of African culture that will shape its future.