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The human tradition in modern Africa

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English
Pages
303

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The human tradition in modern Africa
2012, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Table of Contents

Introduction: People and history in modern Africa / Dennis D. Cordell
José Manuel and Nbena in Benguela in the late 1810s: encounters with enslavement / José C. Curto
Efusetan Aniwura of Ibadan (1820s-1874): a woman who rose to the rank of a chief but whom male rivals destroyed / Toyin Falola
Moka of Bioko (late 1820s-1899): the chief who united a Central African island / Ibrahim Sundiata
Hamet Gora Diop (1846-1910): merchant and notable from Saint-Louis in Senegal / Mamadou Diouf
Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) and the history of the Yorubas: Christianity and a new intelligentsia in West Africa / Toyin Falola
Stories of Cape slavery and emancipation in the nineteenth century / Pamela Scully
Mama Adolphina Unda (c. 1880-1931): the salvation of a dynastic family and the foundation of Fipa Catholicism, 1898-1914 / Marcia Wright
Colonial administrator Adolphe A.M. Taillebourg (1874-1934): strict interpreter of the law or humanitarian? / Issiaka Mandé
Louis Brody (1892-1951) of Cameroon and Mohammed Bayume Hussein (1904-1944) of former German East Africa: variety show performers and the Black community in Germany between the wars / Andreas Eckert
Siti binti Saad (c. 1885-1950): "Giving voice to the voiceless," Swahili music, and the global recording industry in the 1920s and 1930s / Laura Fair
Maryan Muuse Boqor (b. 1938) and the women who inspired her: memories of a Mogadishu childhood / Lidwien Kapteijns and Maryan Muuse Boqor
Wambui Waiyaki Otieno Mbugua (b. 1928): gender politics in Kenya from the Mau Mau rebellion to the pro-democracy movement / Cora Ann Presley
Tina (b. 1942) of Côte d'Ivoire: success in the masculine world of plantation managers / Agnès Adjamagbo
Samba Sylla (b. 1948), Doulo Fofanna (b. 1948 or 1949), and Djénébou Traore (b. 1972): the colonies come to France / Dennis D. Cordell and Carolyn F. Sargent
Foday (b. ca. 1974) meets the rebels in 1991: diamonds are not a boy's best friend / Doug Henry.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Lanham, MD
Series
The human tradition around the world, Human tradition around the world

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
960.0922
Library of Congress
DT18 .H86 2012, DT18.H86 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
303

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25011797M
Internet Archive
humantraditionmo00cord
ISBN 13
9780742537323, 9780742537330, 9781442213838
LCCN
2011036159
OCLC/WorldCat
742512215

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