Caravans of Kola
Author: Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
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The West African Slave Plantation
Author: M. Salau
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-09-12
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0230120164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative look at one piece of the historically significant Sokoto Caliphate.
Bottled
Author: Sara Byala
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-08-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0197766811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. Bottled asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation, development and capitalism. Bottled is the first assessment of the social, commercial and environmental impact of one of the planet's biggest brands and largest corporations, in Africa. Sara Byala charts the company's century-long involvement in everything from recycling and education to the anti-apartheid struggle, showing that Africans have harnessed Coca-Cola in varied expressions of modernity and self-determination: this is not a story of American capitalism running amok, but rather of a company becoming African, bending to consumer power in ways big and small. In late capitalism, everyone's fates are bound together. A beverage in Atlanta and a beverage in Johannesburg pull us all towards the same end narrative. This story matters for more than just the local reasons, enhancing our understanding of our globalised, integrated world. Drawing on fieldwork and research in company archives, Byala asks a question for our time: does Coca-Cola's generative work offset the human and planetary costs associated with its growth in the twenty-first century?
The Asante World
Author: Edmund Abaka
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-30
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1351184059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons, Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress, governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers, epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.
Consuming Habits
Author: Jordan Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1134093632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering a wide range of substances, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect companion for all those interested in how different cultures have defined drugs across the ages.
Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1580462960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era.
Lose Your Mother
Author: Saidiya Hartman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008-01-22
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1429966904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy. There were no survivors of Hartman's lineage, nor far-flung relatives in Ghana of whom she had come in search. She traveled to Ghana in search of strangers. The most universal definition of the slave is a stranger—torn from kin and country. To lose your mother is to suffer the loss of kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as a stranger. As both the offspring of slaves and an American in Africa, Hartman, too, was a stranger. Her reflections on history and memory unfold as an intimate encounter with places—a holding cell, a slave market, a walled town built to repel slave raiders—and with people: an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa; an adolescent boy who was kidnapped while playing; a fourteen-year-old girl who was murdered aboard a slave ship. Eloquent, thoughtful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a powerful meditation on history, memory, and the Atlantic slave trade.
The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia
Author: Ismael M. Montana
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0813048427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking work, Ismael Montana fully explicates the complexity of Tunisian society and culture and reveals how abolition was able to occur in an environment hostile to such change. Moving beyond typical slave trade studies, he departs from the traditional regional paradigms that isolate slavery in North Africa from its global dynamics to examine the trans-Saharan slave trade in a broader historical context. The result is a study that reveals how European capitalism, political pressure, and evolving social dynamics throughout the western Mediterranean region helped shape this seismic cultural event.
The Dispersion
Author: Stéphane Dufoix
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-11-28
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 900432691X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood.
Cross-Cultural Trade in World History
Author: Philip D. Curtin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-05-25
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521269315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe trade between peoples of differinf cultures, from the ancient world to the commercial revolution.
