History - Africa - Central

""Notes On West African Categories"" is a book written by Richard Edward Dennett and published in 1911. The book is a collection of essays on the culture, beliefs, and practices of the people of West Africa, particularly the tribes of the Calabar region in...

'Mark Weston's book is a delight. From charming neighbourhood children to failing fish stocks, not forgetting the perfect recipe for banana beer, The Saviour Fish is a compelling account of life on a remote Tanzanian island, told by a writer who has his eyes...

Rhodesia: Past and Present is a historical book written by Stefanns Jacobus du Toit and published in 1897. The book covers the history of Rhodesia, a former British colony in southern Africa, from the pre-colonial era to the late 19th century. The book begins...

""Among the Ibos of Nigeria"" is a book written by George Thomas Basden and published in 1921. The book is a detailed account of the author's experiences while living among the Ibo people of Nigeria during the early 20th century. Basden was a Christian...

Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley's trip down the Congo in a...

John H Weeks spent thirty years living among the Bakongo tribe in Africa, and this book is his account of the experience. It offers a detailed look into the lives, traditions, and beliefs of the Bakongo people, as well as their relationship with neighboring...

Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultures--like those in rural Uganda, where Having People, Having Heart takes place--people...

The humanitarian movement against Leopold's violent colonisation of the Congo emerged out of Europe, but it depended at every turn on African input. Individuals and groups from throughout the upper Congo River basin undertook journeys of daring and self-sacrifice to provide evidence of atrocities...

Patrice Lumumba's legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo's decolonization. What new ideals of masculinity and femininity were generated in this struggle? WereAuthor: K. BouwerISBN-10: 1137306386ISBN-13: 9781137306388Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging This lavishly illustrated book brings a new approach to the masterpieces of Songye, a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the Congo, exploring the styles of the different...

The following pages, initially prepared for limited circulation in 1961, contain brief extracts and summaries of those parts of Eugen Zintgraff's book Nord-Kamerun (1895), of most interest concerning the colonial Bamenda and Wum Division. Zintgraff's book, the first by a European about the Grassfields,...

The 1820s and 1830s were a crucial period in the historical experience of the British Caribbean colonies, because it marked the adoption of a policy of slaveemancipation by the British government. Central to the implementation of that policy was the formal embrace of the...

The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so...

This book is about the Duala "middlemen," who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over three hundred years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, and finally took a leading role in anti-colonial...

In the early decades of the nineteenth century European interest in Africa was reaching its height. Places such as Timbuctoo, seemingly as remote as the moon, were seen as vital links in the establishment of new trade routes to the African interior. In 1822...

The continuation of a groundbreaking study of the Rwandan genocide, and the story of the survivor generation In Rwanda from April to June 1994, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors in the largest and swiftest genocide since World War II. In his...

This richly documented account of the arrival of rubber traders, new Christian missionaries, and the Portuguese colonial state in the Kongo realm is told from the perspective of the kingdom's inhabitants. Jelmer Vos shows that both Africans and Europeans were able to forward differing...

Denial spans a broad geographic and thematic range in its explorations of varied forms of denial-which is embedded in each stage of genocide.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, genocide studies, anthropology, political science, international law, gender studies, and...

This seminal work by Edmund Dene Morel provides a detailed account of the rubber slave trade in the Congo region in the early 20th century. Morel's book played a crucial role in raising awareness of the atrocities committed against the Congolese people and helped...

The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers. 'The Mungo Bridge, ' is a stinging indictment of the tenuous relations between La Republique du Cameroun and the Southern Cameroons -...

Pioneering On The Congo V1 is a book written by W. Holman Bentley that provides a detailed account of his experiences as a Christian missionary in the Congo during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this book, Bentley recounts his journey from...

History is not linear, the fabric of history is adorned with confusing and sometimes confounding patterns. Notwithstanding, throughout the ages, through myth, allegory, parables, iconography and symbolism, the fragmented remains of key aspects of true history have been perserved down to the present day....

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994 genocide and reconstruction, right up to the modern...

""Darkwater: Voices From Within The Veil"" is a powerful collection of essays and reflections by W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most influential African American intellectuals of the 20th century. Published in 1920, this thought-provoking work delves into the complex issues of race, identity,...

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" The man who uttered those famous words was compared with Christopher Columbus in his day and became one of the late nineteenth century's most newsworthy figures. Yet, one hundred years after Henry Morton Stanley's death, his accomplishments in Africa have...

Somalia A Country Study is a comprehensive book that provides an in-depth analysis of the country of Somalia. Written by the Federal Research Division, the book covers various aspects of Somalia's history, geography, economy, politics, and culture. The book begins with an overview of...

During 100 days in Spring 1994, Rwanda's descent into terror took an estimated 800,000 lives. The fastest-moving genocide in modern times was horrifying for its intimacy: Killers and victims were neighbors, friends, fellow churchgoers, workmates, even spouses. Murderers did their "work" with crude implements--machetes,...

Political conflict in many parts of the world has been shaped by notions of who rightfully belongs to a place. The concept of autochthony-that a true, original people are born of a land and belong to it above all others-has animated struggles across postcolonial...

Journey through the vibrant and diverse history of Cameroon with our amazing book, "The History of Cameroon." Immerse yourself in the captivating narrative that spans ancient civilizations, colonial rule, the struggle for independence, and the challenges and prospects of modernity.This text-only book is a...

English-Kikuyu Vocabulary: Compiled For The Use Of The C.M.S. Missions In East Africa (1904) is a book that contains a comprehensive list of English words and their corresponding Kikuyu translations. The book was compiled by Arthur Wallace McGregor, and it was specifically designed for...

What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South Sudan a former rebel movement faces colossal challenges in building a new country. At independence it was...

Discover the rich cultural traditions of the Luba people of central Africa with this fascinating study of their religion and mythology. Drawing on extensive field research and firsthand accounts, this book is a vital resource for anyone interested in the history and culture of...

A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social,...

What was it like to be colonized by foreigners? Highlighting a region in central Congo, in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Being Colonized places Africans at the heart of the story. In a richly textured history that will appeal to general readers and students...

Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association Between 1920 and 1994, the Catholic Church was Rwanda's most dominant social and religious institution. In recent years, the church has been critiqued for its perceived complicity in the ethnic discourse...

A remarkable feature of the collapse of the British Empire is that the British departed from almost every single one of their colonial territories invariably leaving behind a messy situation and an agenda of serious problems that in most cases still haunt those territories...

Gypsy Lore is a book written by R. A. Scott Macfie and published in 1908. The book is a comprehensive study of the history, customs, and beliefs of the Roma people, also known as Gypsies. Macfie draws on his extensive travels and personal interactions...

This book presents information on the land and people, history, politics, economy, society, and culture of Equatorial Guinea. It includes views of the author on economic dependency, ethnic rivalry, and lack of infrastructure based on the visits to Equatorial Guinea.Author: Ibrahim K. SundiataISBN-10: 036715658XISBN-13:...

Drawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collections this book presents a trans-generational narrative of the influence and role played by diasporic Scots and their descendants in the religious and political lives of Dutch/ Afrikaner...

The Plant In 1964, the National Motors auto manufacturing plant was a city sin unto itself: Liquor flowed, while fat-cats entertained clients with gambling, prostitutes and other vices in the plant's business underworld, and one had to learn to negotiate convoluted plant politics to...

For more than a century, historians and writers on Africa have almost invariably associated the name Mlozi with all the cruellest excesses of the central and east African slave trade during the nineteenth century. That Mlozi bin Kazbadema was a significant slaver who conducted...

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809-1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain,...

Over a quarter of a century has passed since Muntu was first published in English, but this landmark examination still provides one of the most in-depth looks at African and neo-African culture. In his insightful study, Janheinz Jahn surveys the whole range of traditional...

Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes these...

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa,...

One hot May morning in 2003, a crowd of Hutus who had participated in the genocidal killings of April 1994 in Rwanda filed out of prison and into the sunshine, singing hallelujahs, their freedom granted by presidential pardon. As they returned to their old...

Though the world was stunned by the horrific massacres of Tutsi by the Hutu majority in Rwanda beginning in April 1994, there has been little coverage of the reprisals that occurred after the Tutsi gained political power. During this time hundreds of thousands of...

The legacy of colonial and postcolonial African architecture. This edited collection of essays and image-driven pieces by anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, and historians examines the legacies of African architecture from around the time of independence through examples from different countries. Drawing on ethnography, archival research,...

Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 gives comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region. With equal focus given to both internal histories or inter-state interactions and external...

A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the...