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Author | : Daniel J. Paracka, Jr. |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1135935998 |
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This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).
Author | : Akibo Robinson |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2023-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1669876942 |
Download THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ATHENS OF WEST AFRICA Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The country owed its name to the Portuguese explorer, Petro da Cintra, who was the first European to sight and map the Freetown Habour. The original Portuguese name, Sierra Lyoa (Lion Mountains) describes the range of hills that surrounds the habour. The capital Freetown commands one of the world’s largest natural habours. The country is located on the coast of West Africa, bounded on the North and East by Guinea, on the East by Liberia, and on the West by the Atlantic Ocean. It has many miles of beautiful sandy beaches. The backbone of the economy is agriculture, but it is rich in minerals – diamonds, gold, bauxite, and rutile. The book traces the rich pre-colonial history of a people whose main occupations then were agriculture and trade. Communal life was highly regulated by chiefs, who presided over their subjects. These societies were governed by what is now called “customary laws”. The book also debunks the thinking that Pedro da Cintra discovered Sierra Leone; he was not even the first European to set foot in Sierra Leone. It traces exhaustively the exploitative rule of the British Colonial Administration until its independence on 27th April 1961. Sierra Leone is credited as being, the “Athens of West Africa”. How this came about is explained at length. How can a small country so far removed from Athens be credited as such? The primary reason was for its learning. The first University in sub-Saharan Africa was established in Sierra Leone, and it attracted students from all over the continent. Woven into this academic fabric, is the politico-socio-economic development from the founding of the state up to the present. It traces the turbulent times the country has been through: coups and countercoups, declaration of a one party state, a brutal 11-year civil war, and the bastardisation of the constitution by various regimes, since independence up to the present.
Author | : Daniel Joseph Paracka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Daniel J. Paracka, Jr. |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 113593598X |
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This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).
Author | : Daniel J. Paracka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1048 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : International education |
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Author | : Paul E. Lovejoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : 9780821422403 |
Download Jihād in West Africa During the Age of Revolutions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Introduction -- The Age of revolutions and the Atlantic World -- The origins of jihād in West Africa -- The jihād of Ô̂uthman dan Fodio in the central Bilād al-Sūdān -- The economic impact of jihād in West Africa -- Jihād and the slave trade -- The repercussions of jihād in the Americas -- Sokoto, the jihād states, and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade -- Empowering history : trajectories across the cultural and religious divide -- Appendix: Population estimates for the Sokoto caliphate, ca. 1905/15
Author | : Lansana Gberie |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253218551 |
Download A Dirty War in West Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since 1991, this West African nation has been brought to its knees by a series of coups, violent conflicts, and finally, outright war. The war has ended today, but it is clear that things are hardly settled. Focusing on the group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), journalist Lansana Gberie exposes the corruption and appalling use of rape and mutilation as tactics to overthrow the former government. Gberie looks closely at the rise of the RUF and its ruthless leader, Foday Sankoh, as he seeks to understand the personalities and parties involved in the war.
Author | : Stephanie Newell |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0821444492 |
Download The Power to Name Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. African-owned newspapers offered local writers numerous opportunities to contribute material for publication, and editors repeatedly defined the press as a vehicle to host public debates rather than simply as an organ to disseminate news or editorial ideology. Literate locals responded with great zeal, and in increasing numbers as the twentieth century progressed, they sent in letters, articles, fiction, and poetry for publication in English- and African-language newspapers. The Power to Name offers a rich cultural history of this phenomenon, examining the wide array of anonymous and pseudonymous writing practices to be found in African-owned newspapers between the 1880s and the 1940s, and the rise of celebrity journalism in the period of anticolonial nationalism. Stephanie Newell has produced an account of colonial West Africa that skillfully shows the ways in which colonized subjects used pseudonyms and anonymity to alter and play with colonial power and constructions of African identity.
Author | : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2006-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0821445669 |
Download Themes in West Africa’s History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : B. K. Swartz |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110800683 |
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