West Africa Under Colonial Rule

West Africa Under Colonial Rule
Author: Michael Crowder
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2023-07-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000958116

Originally published in 1968, this book became the standard work on the colonial period in the vast and varied areas of the coast and hinterland of West Africa. It is a comprehensive survey of the domination of West Africa by the British and the French, which challenges the accepted view of the colonialists that their rule was generally beneficial. Penetrating descriptions of the colonial economic system are given, and the quality of colonial administration is analysed, as well as the impact of two World Wars.

Nigeria and World War II

Nigeria and World War II
Author: Chima J. Korieh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108425801

A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.

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Author: South-West Africa. Administrator's Office
Publisher: Sources for African History
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This annotated source publication detailing the first genocide of the twentieth century, provides interested readers with African voices and perspectives on German colonial rule in Namibia.

On the Edges of Whiteness

On the Edges of Whiteness
Author: Jochen Lingelbach
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 178920447X

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.

West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army (1860-1960)

West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army (1860-1960)
Author: Timothy Stapleton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 1648250254

"West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960 explores the history of Britain's West African colonial army based in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia placing it within a broader social context and emphasizing, as far as possible, the experience of the ordinary soldier. The aim is not to describe the many battles and campaigns fought by this force but to look at the development of the West African colonial army as an institution over the course of about a century. In pursuing this goal, it is sometimes useful to employ the lens of military culture defined differently by scholars but essentially meaning a set of shared ideas and behaviors that inform daily life in the military. While other locally recruited colonial militaries in Africa have attracted considerable attention from historians as they served as an essential pillar supporting European rule, this book represents the first comprehensive scholarly study of Britain's West African army which was the largest such British-led force south of the Sahara. The study is based on extensive archival research conducted in nine archives located in five countries"--

The Afrika Reich

The Afrika Reich
Author: Guy Saville
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2013-02-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0805095942

From Guy Saville, the explosive new thriller of a world that so nearly existed Africa, 1952. More than a decade has passed since Britain's humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to the war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler. The swastika flies from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. Britain and a victorious Nazi Germany have divided the continent. The SS has crushed the native populations and forced them into labor. Gleaming autobahns bisect the jungle, jet fighters patrol the skies. For almost a decade an uneasy peace has ensued. Now, however, the plans of Walter Hochburg, messianic racist and architect of Nazi Africa, threaten Britain's ailing colonies. Sent to curb his ambitions is Burton Cole: a one-time assassin torn between the woman he loves and settling an old score with Hochburg. If he fails unimaginable horrors will be unleashed on the continent. No one – black or white – will be spared. But when his mission turns to disaster, Burton must flee for his life. It is a flight that will take him from the unholy ground of Kongo to SS slave camps to war-torn Angola – and finally a conspiracy that leads to the dark heart of The Afrika Reich itself.

Germany and the Black Diaspora

Germany and the Black Diaspora
Author: Mischa Honeck
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857459546

The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories, and that earlier constructions of “race” were far more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact.