The human tradition in modern Africa / edited by Dennis D. Cordell.
| Other author | Cordell, Dennis D., 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, |
| Description | ix, 303 p.: map ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | The human tradition around the world Human tradition around the world. ^A466332 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011036159 |
| ISBN | 9780742537323 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780742537330 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781442213838 (electronic) |
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