Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The human tradition in modern Africa

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited by Dennis D. Cordell

Series statement

The human tradition around the world

Table Of 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

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