Africa Under Colonial Domination 1880-1935

Africa Under Colonial Domination 1880-1935
Author: Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Publisher: London : Heinemann ; Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A. : University of California Press
Total Pages: 896
Release: 1985
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9780520039186

"Africa was partitioned and colonized by the Europeans. After military conquest came the commercial exploitation of the wealth of Africa. The intensity of resistance to colonization varied from one region to another, but a new economic and social system linked with colonization was put in place, bringing about unprecedented demographic and political change."--Publisher's description.

Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora

Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora
Author: Roswith Gerloff
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011-05-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 144112330X

An exploration of the rapid development of African Christianity, offering an analysis and interpretation of its movements and issues.

Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations

Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations
Author: Harry N. K. Odamtten
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1628953659

Distinguished by its multidisciplinary dexterity, this book is a masterfully woven reinterpretation of the life, travels, and scholarship of Edward W. Blyden, arguably the most influential Black intellectual of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces Blyden’s various moments of intellectual transformation through the multiple lenses of ethnicity, race, religion, and identity in the historical context of Atlantic exchanges, the Back-to-Africa movement, colonialism, and the global Black intellectual movement. In this book Blyden is shown as an African public intellectual who sought to reshape ideas about Africa circulating in the Atlantic world. The author also highlights Blyden’s contributions to different public spheres in Europe, in the Jewish Diaspora, in the Muslim and Christian world of West Africa, and among Blacks in the United States. Additionally, this book places Blyden at the pinnacle of Afropublicanism in order to emphasize his public intellectualism, his rootedness in the African historical experience, and the scholarship he produced about Africa and the African Diaspora. As Blyden is an important contributor to African studies, among other disciplines, this volume makes for critical scholarly reading.