The human tradition in modern Africa
By: edited by Dennis D. Cordell
Series: The human tradition around the world; Human tradition around the world
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780742537323; 9780742537330; 9781442213838
Subjects: Social conditions; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: People and history in modern Africa / Dennis D. Cordell; title: José Manuel and Nbena in Benguela in the late 1810s: encounters with enslavement / José C. Curto; title: Efusetan Aniwura of Ibadan (1820s-1874): a woman who rose to the rank of a chief but whom male rivals destroyed / Toyin Falola; title: Moka of Bioko (late 1820s-1899): the chief who united a Central African island / Ibrahim Sundiata; title: Hamet Gora Diop (1846-1910): merchant and notable from Saint-Louis in Senegal / Mamadou Diouf; title: Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) and the history of the Yorubas: Christianity and a new intelligentsia in West Africa / Toyin Falola; title: Stories of Cape slavery and emancipation in the nineteenth century / Pamela Scully; title: Mama Adolphina Unda (c. 1880-1931): the salvation of a dynastic family and the foundation of Fipa Catholicism, 1898-1914 / Marcia Wright; title: Colonial administrator Adolphe A.M. Taillebourg (1874-1934): strict interpreter of the law or humanitarian? / Issiaka Mandé; title: 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; title: 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; title: Maryan Muuse Boqor (b. 1938) and the women who inspired her: memories of a Mogadishu childhood / Lidwien Kapteijns and Maryan Muuse Boqor; title: Wambui Waiyaki Otieno Mbugua (b. 1928): gender politics in Kenya from the Mau Mau rebellion to the pro-democracy movement / Cora Ann Presley; title: Tina (b. 1942) of Côte d'Ivoire: success in the masculine world of plantation managers / Agnès Adjamagbo; title: 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; title: Foday (b. ca. 1974) meets the rebels in 1991: diamonds are not a boy's best friend / Doug Henry.