The human tradition in modern Africa / edited by Dennis D. Cordell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cordell, Dennis D., 1947-

Series:

Human tradition around the world

The human tradition around the world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Biography.

Africa.

Africa--History--19th century.

History.

Africa--History--20th century.

Africa--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 303 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.

Summary:

This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of the Africa's tumultuous history since 1800. They coped with upheavals such as the Atlantic slave trade, the conquest of smaller societies by larger ones, and growing European intrusion and conquest. More recently, they were actors who participated in the changes and challenges of independence: dictatorship, economic boom and bust, internal conflict, and, for some, migration to Europe. Their lives demonstrate that individual women and men can and do indeed "make history."

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780742537323

0742537323

9780742537330

0742537331

9781442213838

1442213833

OCLC:

742512215