Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century: A Turbulent History
Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century: A Turbulent History

Author: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1317477499

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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.

Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author: J.C. Anene

Publisher:

Published: 1990-12-31

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9780237800512

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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.

The Origins of Modern African Thought
The Origins of Modern African Thought

Author: Robert W. July

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9781592211999

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For the better part of two centuries, racial domination has been the central concern of African social thought. Other questions, among them national identity, the role of chieftaincy, representation, justice, and constitutional design, have often been defined in relation to a preoccupation with racial and colonial forms of domination. This book, by examining the history of African thought, will prove an invaluable tool to those new thinkers who have begun to revisit the intellectual history of Africa at the outset of the twenty-first century.

A History of Modern Africa
A History of Modern Africa

Author: Richard J. Reid

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0470658983

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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

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History

Author: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415758345

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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.

Black Experience and the Empire
Black Experience and the Empire

Author: Philip D. Morgan

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2004-05-27

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0191555517

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This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or travelled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves - hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion. SERIES DESCRIPTION The purpose of the five volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire was to provide a comprehensive study of the Empire from its beginning to end, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. The volumes in the Companion Series carry forward this purpose by exploring themes that were not possible to cover adequately in the main series, and to provide fresh interpretations of significant topics

Ghana
Ghana

Author: A. Adu Boahen

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13:

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