Description Et Recit Historial Du Riche Royaume d'Or de Guinea, (Ed.1605) (Histoire)
by Pieter De Marees
This is Philip Efiong's account of the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War (1967-70). He was a key player during the event and second-in-command to the Biafran leader, General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. The story begins with the coup d'etats of January and July 1966, and recounts ensuing ethnic and regional conflicts. After the first coup,Efiong is posted to State House as Principal Staff Officer and then to Kaduna as Acting Commander of the First Brigade. But the second coup is executed shortly after an...
When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed "fetishes." The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urgent it even preceded the building of a national road system. In Unmasking the State, Mike McGovern attempts to understand why this program was so important to the emerging state and examines the complex role it had in creating a unified national iden...
American Colonization Society, and the Colony at Liberia
by Massachusetts Colonization Society
Liberia's State Failure, Collapse and Reconstitution
by Jr. George Klay Kieh
"Discusses Liberia's settler and neo-colonial development, failure in state-building, collapse followed by its two civil wars, and reconstitution from 2005 under the administration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf"--Provided by publisher.
Nigeria and the Struggle for the Liberation of Zimbabwe
by Olayiwola Abegunrin
Kwame Nkrumah's Political Kingdom and Pan-Africanism ReInterpreted, 1909-1972 provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader from the former Gold Coast, Kwame Nkrumah. Authors A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh analyze Nkrumah's life from his birth on the Gold Coast through his studies in the United Kingdom and the United States, his activism and political life, and his exile and death. Throughout, Assensoh and Alex-Assensoh present a twenty-first-century reinterpre...
Les Colonies Francaises: Notices Illustrees. Saint Pierre Et Miquelon (Histoire)
by de Henrique L
Domination and Reaction in Nupeland, Central Nigeria (African Studies, v. 15)
by Aliyu Alhaji Idrees
From Slavery to Free Labour in Rural Ghana (Western African Studies)
by Gareth M. Austin
American Africans in Ghana (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
by Kevin K Gaines
In 1957, Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans - including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammed Ali - visited or settled in Ghana. Kevin K. Gaines explains what attracted these Americans to Ghana and how their new community was shaped by the convergence of the Cold War, the rise of the U.S. civil rights movement, a...
de la Colonisation Du Senegal, (Ed.1897) (Sciences Sociales)
by Beuverand de la Loyere P
Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal (Religion, Culture, and Public Life, #15)
This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the state, Sunni reformist and radical groups, and non-religious organizations. The anthology provides a r...
In this original interdisciplinary study of Togo and African colonial history, Benjamin Lawrance synthesizes political, gender, and social history by documenting the contributions of rural-dwelling populations in anti-colonial struggles. Anchoring his arguments on the premise that nationalist historiographies have overstated the role of urban and elite power while undervaluing the strategic place of rural constituencies, Lawrance uses the Ewe nationalist movement of southern Togo as a case study...