Sierra Leone, 1787-1987
| Author | : Murray Last |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780719027918 |
Sierra Leone 1787 1987
Download Sierra Leone 1787 1987 full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Sierra Leone 1787 1987 ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Black Poor and White Philanthropists
| Author | : Stephen J. Braidwood |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1994-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0853233772 |
This book examines the events surrounding the establishment of a settlement in West Africa in 1787, which was later to become Freetown, the present-day capital of Sierra Leone. It outlines the range of ideas and attitudes to Africa which underlay the foundation of the settlement, and the part played by the black settlers themselves, London's Black Poor. Was the settlement based on a racist deportation designed to keep Britain white (as some accounts claim), or a voluntary emigration in which the blacks themselves played a part?
The Athens of West Africa
| Author | : Daniel J. Paracka, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 2004-03-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 113593598X |
This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).
Amherst in the World
| Author | : Martha Saxton |
| Publisher | : Amherst College Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2020-09-11 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0943184215 |
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Amherst College, a group of scholars and alumni explore the school’s substantial past in this volume. Amherst in the World tells the story of how an institution that was founded to train Protestant ministers began educating new generations of industrialists, bankers, and political leaders with the decline in missionary ambitions after the Civil War. The contributors trace how what was a largely white school throughout the interwar years begins diversifying its student demographics after World War II and the War in Vietnam. The histories told here illuminate how Amherst has contended with slavery, wars, religion, coeducation, science, curriculum, town and gown relations, governance, and funding during its two centuries of existence. Through Amherst’s engagement with educational improvement in light of these historical undulations, it continually affirms both the vitality and the utility of a liberal arts education. Contributions by Martha Saxton, Gary J. Kornblith, David W. Wills, Frederick E. Hoxie, Trent Maxey, Nicholas L. Syrett, Wendy H. Bergoffen, Rick López, Matthew Alexander Randolph, Daniel Levinson Wilk, K. Ian Shin, David S. Reynolds, Jane F. Thrailkill, Julie Dobrow, Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Debby Applegate, Michael E. Jirik, Bruce Laurie, Molly Michelmore, and Christian G. Appy.
Christian Reflection in Africa
| Author | : Paul Bowers |
| Publisher | : Langham Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 980 |
| Release | : 2018-07-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1783684453 |
This reference collection presents academic reviews of more than twelve-hundred contemporary Africa-related publications relevant for informed Christian reflection in and about Africa. The collection is based on the review journal BookNotes for Africa, a specialist resource dedicated to bringing to notice such publications, and furnishing them with a one-paragraph description and evaluation. Now assembled here for the first time is the entire collection of reviews through the first thirty issues of the journal’s history. The core intention, both of the journal and of this compilation, is to encourage and to facilitate informed Christian reflection and engagement in Africa, through a thoughtful encounter with the published intellectual life of the continent. Reviews have been provided by a team of more than one hundred contributors drawn from throughout Africa and overseas. The books and other media selected for review represent a broad cross-section of interests and issues, of personalities and interpretations, including the secular as well as the religious. The collection will be of special interest to academic scholars, theological educators, libraries, ministry leaders, and specialist researchers in Africa and throughout the world, but will also engage any reader looking for a convenient resource relating to modern Africa and Christian presence there.
Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa
| Author | : Meredeth Turshen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2016-01-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317636554 |
Violence affects the economy of production and the ecology of reproduction— the production of economic goods and services and the generational reproduction of workers, the regeneration of the capacity to work and maintenance of workers on a daily basis, and the renewal of culture and society through community relations and the education of children Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa explores the persistence of violence in conflict zones in Africa using a political economy framework. This framework employs an analysis of violence on both edges of the spectrum—a macro-economic analysis of violence against workers and a micro-political analysis of the violence in women’s reproductive lives. These analyses come together to create a new explanation of why violence persists, a new political economy of violence against women, and a new theoretical understanding of the relation between production and reproduction. Three case studies are discussed: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (violence in an era of conflict), Sierra Leone (violence post-conflict), and Tanzania (which has not seen armed conflict on the mainland). This book fills a significant gap on the political economy of war and women/gender for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in African Studies, Gender Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies.
Bibliographie Mensuelle
| Author | : United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 896 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : International relations |
| ISBN | : |
An African in Imperial London
| Author | : Danell Jones |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2018-08-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1787380769 |
In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at the Empire's great capital and laughed. In this first biography of Merriman-Labor, Danell Jones describes the tragic spiral that pulled him down the social ladder from writer and barrister to munitions worker, from witty observer of the social order to patient in a state-run hospital for the poor. In restoring this extraordinary man to the pantheon of African observers of colonialism, she opens a window onto racial attitudes in Edwardian London. An African in Imperial London is a rich portrait of a great metropolis, writhing its way into a new century of appalling social inequity, world-transforming inventions, and unprecedented demands for civil rights.
The Temne of Sierra Leone
| Author | : Joseph J. Bangura |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2017-11-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110818734X |
Much of the research and study of the formation of Sierra Leone focuses almost exclusively on the role of the so-called Creoles, or descendants of ex-slaves from Europe, North America, Jamaica, and Africa living in the colony. In this book, Joseph J. Bangura cuts through this typical narrative surrounding the making of the British colony, and instead offers a fresh look at the role of the often overlooked indigenous Temne-speakers. Bangura explores, however, the socio-economic formation, establishment, and evolution of Freetown, from the perspective of different Temne-speaking groups, including market women, religious figures, and community leaders and the complex relationships developed in the process. Examining key issues, such as the politics of belonging, African agency, and the creation of national identities, Bangura offers an account of Sierra Leone that sheds new perspectives on the social history of the colony.
African Print Cultures
| Author | : African Print Cultures Network. Meeting |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 2016-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0472053175 |
Broad-ranging essays on the social, political, and cultural significance of more than a century's worth of newspaper publishing practices across the African continent
