The Ewe in Pre-colonial Times
Author: D. E. K. Amenumey
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13:
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Ethnicity and the Colonial State
Author: Alexander Keese
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-30
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9004307354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.
Shaping the African Savannah
Author: Michael Bollig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-02
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 110848848X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.
Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast
Author: Sandra E. Greene
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780852556221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings together the fields of gender studies and ethnic studies to examine precolonial Africa.
Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa
Author: Klas Rönnbäck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1317222164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development.
Ethnicity in Ghana
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1349623377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed much to indigenous ways of seeing. The contributors explore the role of European administrators and recruitment officers as well as African cultural brokers in shaping new identities. The interaction of gender and ethnic consciousness is explicitly addressed. The volume also examines the formulation of the national question in Ghana today - in debates over language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy.
The Precolonial State in West Africa
Author: J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-09
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1107040183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.
The Precolonial State in West Africa
Author: J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-09
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1139952536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Bénin, emerged in this period as one of the principal agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an exemplar of West African state formation. Drawing from eight years of ethnohistorical and archaeological fieldwork in the Republic of Bénin, the central thesis of this volume is that Dahomean kings used spatial tactics to project power and mitigate dissent across their territories. J. Cameron Monroe argues that these tactics enabled kings to economically exploit their subjects and to promote a sense of the historical and natural inevitability of royal power.
Women in African Colonial Histories
Author: Jean Allman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002-04-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780253108876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? By considering the lives of ordinary African women -- farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders -- in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and times, Women in African Colonial Histories challenges the notion of a homogeneous "African women's experience." While recognizing the inherent violence and brutality of the colonial encounter, the essays in this lively volume show that African women were not simply the hapless victims of European political rule. Innovative use of primary sources, including life histories, oral narratives, court cases, newspapers, colonial archives, and physical evidence, attests that African women's experiences defy static representation. Readers at all levels will find this an important contribution to ongoing debates in African women's history and African colonial history.
Germany and Its West African Colonies
Author: Wazi Apoh
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 3643903030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWest African history is usually seen as mainly influenced by English or French colonialism. There is a new interest in German colonialism, but most research is done in European archives and with a European point-of-view. This book explores German colonial exploits and their consequences in Ghana, Togo, and Cameroon, mostly from an African point-of-view. By means of research on sites of the colonial hinterland and the agency of entangled people, the book reveals the simmering impact of the past encounters on indigenous religious, cultural, political, and socio-economic developments in West Africa. (Series: African Studies / Afrikanische Studien - Vol. 49)
