The Land of Fetish

The Land of Fetish
Author: A. B. Ellis
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-06-03
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

Written by a British army officer, this book delves into his experiences serving and traveling across West Africa, including countries such as Gambia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Benin. Though some of the descriptions are rather dated, it nevertheless provides an interesting perspective of the various tribes that reside in the region.

Early Black Media, 1918–1924

Early Black Media, 1918–1924
Author: Jane L. Chapman
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2019-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319694774

This book represents the first systematic attempt to analyse media and public communications published in Britain by people of African and Afro-Caribbean origin during the aftermaths of war, presenting an in-depth study of print publications for the period 1919-1924. This was a period of post-conflict readjustment that experienced a transnational surge in special interest newspapers and periodicals, including visual discourse. This study provides evidence that the aftermath of war needs to be given more attention as a distinctly defined period of post-conflict adjustment in which individual voices should be highlighted. As such it forms part of a continuing imperative to re-discover and recuperate black history, adding to the body of research on the aftermaths of The First World War, black studies, and the origins of diaspora. Jane L. Chapman analyses how the newspapers of black communities act as a record of conflict memory, and specifically how physical and political oppression was understood by members of the African Caribbean community. Pioneering black activist journalism demonstrates opinions on either empowerment or disempowerment, visibility, self-esteem, and economic struggles for survival.

The Examiner

The Examiner
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 858
Release: 1848
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

The First West India Regiment

The First West India Regiment
Author: A.B. Ellis
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2019-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734062462

Reproduction of the original: The First West India Regiment by A.B. Ellis

Britain's Black Regiments

Britain's Black Regiments
Author: Barry Renfrew
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0750995890

In three global conflicts and countless colonial campaigns, tens of thousands of black West Indian soldiers fought and died for Britain, first as slaves and then as volunteers. These all but forgotten regiments were unique because they were part of the British Army rather than colonial formations. All were stepchild units, despised by an army that was loath to number black soldiers in its ranks and yet unable to do without them; their courage, endurance and loyalty were repaid with bigotry and abuse. In Britain's Black Regiments, Barry Renfrew shines a light on the experiences of these overlooked soldiers who had travelled thousands of miles to serve the empire but were denied recognition in their lifetimes. From British campaigns in the Caribbean to the Second World War, this is a saga of war, bondage, hardship, mutiny, forlorn outposts and remarkable fortitude.