Excerpt from British West Africa Imports of enamelware declined once more. In 1913, including freight and packing, imports were valued at of which about came from the United Kingdom, and only $300 worth from the United States. The enamelware supplied by the Central Powers before the war was in great demand. The decrease 'as caused by a -burlage of supplies from other sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Agricultural and Forest Products of British West Africa Since the first edition of this book appeared, British West Africa has experienced a serious set-back in its development through the occurrence of the Great European War. From that war, however, many lessons will have been learnt, which will, it is hoped, make the course of progress in the future more sure and perhaps more rapid. The cultivation of cotton has now been shown to be successful and profitable in Nigeria. In the Northern Provinces great progress has been made in perfecting a cotton originally grown from American Upland seed, whilst the Southern Provinces have produced in creasing quantities of an improved native cotton of the type of Middling American. The future of cotton production in Nigeria is now assured, and its further development chiefly depends on effective action being taken on commercial lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Rise of British West Africa: Comprising the Early History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Lagos, Gold Coast, Etc. Etc A voyage of three days from the Chariot of the Gods brought them to another bay with an island. Here a new phenomenon greeted their eyes. The inhabitants, human-like in form, were covered from head to foot with Shaggy hair - the ourang outang - to which they gave the name Gorilla, a word of African origin. Three females of these monsters were chased and caught, and their Skins carried to Carthage as presents to Hanno. Various have been the theories that cluster about this voyage, both as regards the phenomena that attended it and its terminus. Most of the phenomena have, however, been found by modern travellers to correspond with Hanno's description, although there is still a divergence of opinion as regards the terminus, some holding it to have been Morocco, others the mouth of the Gambia Major Rennell believes that Hanno passed Sierra Leone, and that the Bay of Gorilla was the Sherbro Island, which would harmonise exactly with the description of coast-line passed on that memorable voyage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. 3: West Africa A great part of the historical matter comprised in this book has been compiled by Mr. R. L. Antrobus of the Colonial Ofice, who has also revised the pages relating to St. Helena, of which island he was acting Governor in 1889-90. My warm acknowledgements are due to him, as also to Sir A. W. L. Hemming, of the Colonial Ofice, and Sir G. T. Carter, Governor of Lagos, who have been good enough to look through the pages relating to West 2 Africa. I must also acknowledge the kind assistance given to me by, among many others, Sir W. Brand t'ord Grifiith, Governor of the Gold Coast Sir F. F leming. Governor of Sierra Leone and Mr. R. B. Llewelyn, Administrator of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari and Other Tales of South-West Africa most of these stories were written on the veldt; at odd times, in out-of-the-way prospecting camps, in the wilds of the Kalahari Deser, or of that equally little-known borderland between Klein Namaqualand, and Gordonia, Cape Colony, and what was at that time known as German South-West Africa. Four of them appeared a few years back in The State - an illustrated magazine now unhappily defunct: the others, though written about the same time, have never been published. And now, time and circumstances have combined to bring the scene in which they are laid most prominently before the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Nyitso a Novel of West Africa It was mid-morning, a bright, cloudless morning, suffused with heat, but a pleasant heat that menaced but never consumed. A pallidly splendid sun moved majestically to the zenith of a pale blue, rain-washed sky, poised above a drenched green earth. Elsewhere, the time of the year was the close of the calendar half-year. Here it was the close of the third season, the third of the five seasons. The rains were drawing to a close. Ahead, on the eastern horizon, lay an opaque haze. It contained a threat which the late afternoon sun might bring to fulfilment, when the wide plains would crouch beneath the sudden onslaught of the rain. But now the plains were at peace and unafraid, glorious, green, sweeping plains, the short grass thick and vigorous. Noisy little watercourses chattered their way in brimming, important threads, forgetful that in the dry season they would shrink and dwindle into nothingness. Here and there were clusters of thorn bushes and twisted euphorbias, dwarfed beside the tall stateliness of borassus palms, foliage spread out luxuriantly against the background of pale sky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The West African Pocket Book: A Guide for Newly-Appointed Government Officers The British possessions in West Africa are the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast (including Ashanti and the Northern Territories), and Nigeria (Northern Provinces and Southern Provinces). Portions of the ex-German Colonies of Togoland and the Cameroons are at present administered by officers seconded from the Gold Coast and Nigeria respectively. The Gambia is a strip of territory on the banks of the river of that name, about 4,000 square miles in area, with a population of about 200,000. Sierra Leone is as large as Scotland, with a population of about one and a half millions. The Gold Coast, with Ashanti and the Northern Territories, is nearly equal in area to England and Scotland, and has a population roughly estimated at two millions. The area of Nigeria is more than five times tho size of England and Scotland. Its population is about seventeen millions. All these possessions lie within the tropies. Owing to their great extent much variation of climate is met with, but considerable heat is general, as, except in the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, there are no very elevated tracts, and on the coast and near it the climate is also very moist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The English in Africa Accept, and the boundary line is finally settled between the French Soudan and the British Niger country, as extending a long way east of the line drawn due south from Say, and which France, a little earlier, proposed to accept. So, also, what is called French Ubangi, which lies east of the Cameroons country, has been extended eastward to the western water shed of the Nile, and northward so as to embrace the Sultanate of Wadai, that lies eastward of Lake Tchad, and northward to the Turkish Vilayet of Tripoli. One-third of the continent of Africa is Ito-day under the dominion of France. But while the territories of France, in Africa, are very extensive, they are not commercially as advantageous as those which have fallen to the lot of England, and which have been, for the most part, brought under English jurisdiction, after English explorers and merchant-traders had acquired important interests in the country. The British possessions in Africa include Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Lagos, the Niger Coast Protectorate and the great territory to the north, which, until recently, was under the {royal Niger Company, but is now under the direct authority of the Crown. The other British possessions are Cape Colony, Natal, Zululand, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, the Protectorate of Bechuanaland, British South Africa, British Central Africa, Nyasaland, the Protectorate of British East Africa, Somali land, the Soudan and Egypt. And to these, no doubt, will be added, as a result of the war now in progress, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. In the present work, I have dealt with the English in Egypt, in the Soudan, in the Protectorate of British East Africa, in the Niger coun try, and in South Africa. In the Niger country, in Egypt, and in Soudan, England has been brought diplomatically in conflict with France. In East Africa, and in south-west Africa, in diplomatic conflict with Germany; in Central Africa, into diplomatic conflict with Portugal and in South Eastern Africa, into hostilities with the two Boer Republics. Portugal claimed to hold possession of territory extending. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up spaces to dream, discuss or contest. Movie theatres offered a break from the daily routine, as places of escape and of education. Cinema was also potentially subversive, offering an alternative to colonial discourse. Tropical Dream Palaces seeks to trace this history in a West African context: of broadening horizons on the one hand, and of censorship and control on the other. It fills a historiographic void, following cinema's arrival in the region in the early twentieth century up until the Independence era, and also looking further afield to Central Africa and its different models. Goerg addresses questions of film distribution in colonial times; of screening venues, their implantation, spread and different categories; while also focusing on audiences, their gender or age; the acquisition of a film culture; and the impact of screening foreign images. Her book draws on extremely varied sources to paint a broad picture of this cinematographic landscape: archives, the accounts of African and European spectators or administrators, novels, autobiographies, the local press, interviews and iconography.
Excerpt from The Natives of British Central Africa West of the territory thus defined, and between the Zambezi and the upper waters of the Congo, lies a vast region known officially as North-east Rhodesia, and reaching up to the south end of Lake Tanganika. We Shall have Something to say about the tribes living in this part of the country; some of them, indeed, are identical with those in the Protectorate proper but it is with the latter that we shall chiefly have to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
