Author: Patrick Manning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: african, trades, studies, slave, occidental, life, slavery, oriental
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1990-09-28
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 0521348676
ISBN-13: 9780521348676
This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves by Occidental and Oriental purchasers in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century. While primarily a general survey, Dr. Manning presents original re
Author: John Miller Chernoff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: african, musical, idioms, action, aesthetics, rhythm, sensibility, social
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1981-10-15
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0226103455
ISBN-13: 9780226103457
"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."--Andrew Tracey, African Music "Ethnomusicologists must be proud that their discipline has produced a book that will, beyond doubt, rank as a classic of African studies."--Peter Fryer, Research in Literatures
Author: African commission on Human and Peoples Rights
Publisher: IWGIA
Keywords: african, information, research, central, republic, january, communities, populations, commission’s, working, group, indigenous, report
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2009-12-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 8791563623
ISBN-13: 9788791563621
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has established a Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities that undertook a research and information visit to the Central African Republic in January 2007. From that visit this report was created, which gives an account of meetings held with government authorities, civil society organizations, indigenous communities, and other stakeholders. It describes the situation of the indigenous populations in the Central African Republic, explores two key groups of indigenous peoples (namely the Aka, who are the larger group of ‘Pygmies
Authors:David C. Conrad, Sekou Camara, Laminigbe Bayo,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: african, west, music, culture, history, sources, mischievous, bards, upper, bala, niger, river, charismatic, people, somono
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 9004121854
ISBN-13: 9789004121850
The Somono are an ethnic group specialized in fishing on the river Niger. Somono Bala is an epic story. This is a translation of this narritive from the Maninka language into English.
Authors:Bessie House-Midamba, Felix K. Ekechi,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: african, women, economic, afro, studies, american, contributions, role, market, power, development
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1995-01-30
List price: $126.95
ISBN-10: 0313292140
ISBN-13: 9780313292149
An interdisciplinary study of market women from all parts of Africa shows how, from historical times to the present, African women have used the economic power they have derived from market activities and commercial enterprises to improve their social and political status in a man’s world. They used their wealth in pre-colonial times to obtain titles and even chieftainship. Because of their involvement in trade, many women acquired considerable property, especially real estate. The authors stress the positive aspect of women’s economic activities, but also point out the prevalent s
Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher: M. Wiener Pub.
Keywords: african, history, readings, vol, eastern, documents, text
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1990-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1558760164
ISBN-13: 9781558760165
This volume covers three thousand years of African history beginning with reports about the ancient kingdoms of Ethiopia and Kush, ancient and medieval trade routes, including China’s discovery of Africa; the history of the East Coast; the Nilotic Slave trade, kingdoms and court life in Inner East Africa, the appearance of Indian and white settlers, and merchants and colonialists. The texts include important local authorities and scholars as well as travelers and administrators from Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, India, and China. Modern times are considered in the documents of Jomo Ken
Author: Conference on African Linguistics 1994 (Rutgers Un
Publisher: Africa World Press
Keywords: linguistics, african, trends, approaches, theoretical
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1995-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0865434638
ISBN-13: 9780865434639
