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Published: 16 August 2012
...From the 1820s there was a surge in American commerce with western Africa, slave and legitimate, many of the vessels sailing via Cabo Verde. Collaboration between legitimate traders and slave traders greatly increased following the 1835 Anglo-Spanish treaty incorporating an ‘equipment clause...
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Published: 03 December 2009
... further. Braudel Fernand frontiers north Africa Power Daniel Whittaker C R Dar al ‘Ahd Dar al Harb Dar al Islam gazi thesis Wittek Paul corsairs Pirenne Henri Spain Turner F J Algiers Ceuta Tetouan caravans France Great Britain foreign policy Netherlands slave trade trade Tripoli...
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Published: 31 October 2022
... Migrations Asante Africa African global diaspora History Identity First an excursus, a detour into current historiography to highlight what chapter two does not address before exploring its actual content. As has been seen, Asantehene Osei Agyeman Prempeh II was fixated on the question of primordial...
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Published: 31 October 2022
... Frimpon Manso Kwadwo Adinkra MacCarthy Sir Charles ntɔrɔ Ofori Panin Owusu Akyem Tenten Pobi Asaman Worosa patakromu KWAKU DUA KUMA aka KWAKU DUA II nkonnwafieso Aboratia river asankroase akrafieso Amma Sewaa Hyiawu Akyem Nantwi Asante Africa African global diaspora History Identity...
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Published: 31 October 2022
...Describes very short reign that ended in premature death, said to have been brought about by supernatural means akyeremade Denkyira Kwaadu Konadu Yaadom OPOKU FOFIE OSEI KWAME bantama Dwaben Firempomaa Tanowa Golden Stool sika dwa kofi Kwame Akyamfuo Asante Africa African global diaspora...
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Published: 31 October 2022
... Domakwai Fomena Kofi Dei Kuntanase Kwabena Asubonten Kwaku Poku Agyeman Kwame Danemu Yaw Ntem aban Akwaboa Akyampon Panin aka Saaman Akyampon Nantwi Kwaku Bosommuru Dwira manhyia Odaso Yaw Bosommuru Tia Owusu Koko Kuma Yaw Nantwi Claridge W W Kwaman odwira Kwanwoma ntɔrɔ Asante Africa...
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Published: 17 November 2011
... been chosen as a focus for the memorialisation of the slave trade in eastern Africa, as part of a project headed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in collaboration with the Antiquities Division of Tanzania, and in response to a wider UNESCO-sponsored agenda. Yet the attempt...
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Published: 11 October 2012
...Figure 9.1. Fraudulent certificate of domicile, Natal 1907 This chapter is about the fate of a registration system designed for the exclusion of ‘undesirable’ Indian migrants to South Africa in the first decades of the twentieth century. It traces the bureaucracy's deployment of residence...
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Published: 11 October 2012
... (in Africa and elsewhere in the global South) suggest a need to rethink the question of social assistance from a less Eurocentric perspective. With a special focus on southern Africa, this chapter reviews the meaning of ‘social assistance’ in a region where the domain of ‘the social’ was never securely...
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Published: 05 August 2010
...Dispossession and displacement have always afflicted life in the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa. Waves of people have been displaced from their homeland as a result of conflicts and social illnesses. At the end of the nineteenth century, Circassian Muslims and Jewish groups were...
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Published: 25 October 2007
... the major new immigration countries of Western Europe, such as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Sweden, as well as South Africa. Porter J Ascription Charter population Equality of opportunity Stratification Card D Fisher G Hirschman C Jones F L Kesler C Kogan I Lieberson S Model S...
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Published: 07 October 2021
... present, closer to home and closer to the ‘humanity’ which they believed the Empire to be promoting. acceleration colonialism Hanotaux Gabriel historicity imperialism simultaneity technology Africa Asia First World War redemption civilisation globalisation Hartog François Hunt Lynn interwar...
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Published: 16 June 2022
... be a community to which the collaborator is nominally loyal. The chapter challenges these views on collaboration by closely examining the case of police informers in South Africa in the colonial and apartheid regime periods. Along the lines suggested, the chapter argues that informers may have been motivated...
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Published: 03 August 2023
... blacksmith nùmu smith clothing hippopotamus Mali iron bird Colonialism Military conquest West Africa Sunjata epic Jaime Jaime, Lieut. de Vaisseau, De Koulikoro à Tombouctou à bord du “Mage” 1889–1890, Paris: E. Dentu, Librairie de la société des gens de lettres, n.d. [1892], pp. 329...
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Published: 22 February 2024
...0 22 02 2024 This chapter will use the new Global AIDS Strategy (UNAIDS, 2021) inequality framework to highlight key menstrual health issues in the Global South, focusing on Africa. Linking menstrual health to the Global AIDS Strategy framework enables us to leverage some of the strategies...
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Published online: 31 January 2012
Published in print: 30 June 2011
...This volume contains sixteen chapters which contain the text of lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2008–10. From romantic love in sub-Saharan Africa to the British industrial revolution, from John Donne to Arthur Miller, from surrealism to Chinese flower imagery, this book demonstrates...
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Published online: 31 January 2013
Published in print: 16 August 2012
...This book, which provides a collection from scholars in the field of the precolonial history of Western Africa (the region between Senegal and Sierra Leone), aims to bring the history of the region to wider historical attention. It spans the whole pre-colonial period between the first Portuguese...
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Published online: 20 May 2021
Published in print: 24 September 2020
...Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today is set out to show what is beneath the surface, under the appearances of skin, body, colour and provenance, and not the cultural fixities or partial views detached from the realities...
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Published online: 18 January 2024
Published in print: 03 August 2023
...The Sunjata epic is a foundational oral narrative for Manding populations of West Africa that claims to describe the origins of the famed medieval empire of Mali. It is both an historical source and an artistic creation of West African oral specialists, the griots or jèliw. Despite...
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Published: 03 August 2023
... and language hunters Islam Islamic Tal Amadu Frobenius Leo Quiquandon Fernand Soninke Vidal Jules Zeltner Franz de beer dolo foodstuffs iron love magic sister tree Catholic church missionaries sheep ram sorcerer Colonialism Military conquest West Africa Sunjata epic Hourst Hourst, Lieut...