Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa

Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa
Author: Klas Rönnbäck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317222164

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development.

Asante

Asante
Author: Philip Koslow
Publisher: Chelsea House
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780791031407

Presents the history of the mighty West African people.

Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital

Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
Author: Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580469183

An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909.

History of the Gold Coast and Asante

History of the Gold Coast and Asante
Author: Carl Christian Reindorf
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781015551343

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A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, Divided Into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts

A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, Divided Into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts
Author: Willem Bosman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 558
Release: 1705
Genre: Africa, West
ISBN:

Twenty-two letters by merchants of the Dutch West India Company; the first twenty are by Willem Bosman, and the last two by David van Nyendael and Jan Snoek. A small part of letter 18 and a substantial portion of letter 19 deals with the slave-trade; also some scattered notices about this subject elsewhere in the text