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Journal articles on the topic "Africa, west, biography"

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Lindsay, Lisa A. "Biography in African History." History in Africa 44 (March 8, 2017): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hia.2017.1.

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Abstract:This paper charts the rise and transformation of biography as a form of Africanist history writing. Biography in African history, as in other fields, has included attention to nationalist heroes as well as the lives of slaves, women, and other subalterns. Recently, some Africanist historians have embraced transnational life histories, particularly those situated in the “black Atlantic” of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some themes, methods, and limitations of such biographies are discussed in relation to the author’s own project on a nineteenth century immigrant to West Africa.

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Sow, Alioune. "Biography and Colonial Discourse in ‘French West Africa’." Social Dynamics 30, no. 1 (2004): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533950408628662.

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Malami, Aliyu, and Dr Ahmad Liman. "Role of Fodio Family in Developing Arabic Syntax and Morphology Studies in West Africa." Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 10 (2016): 1223–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2016.v04i10.001.

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This article is an attempt to highlight the role played by the family known as Fodiyo family and their contributions toward the study of Arabic syntax and morphology in West Africa with particular references to Sheikh Abdullahi bin Fodiyo and Sultan Muhammad Bello. The two personalities played crucial role in these two fields and wrote important books for the study of such discipline, this is what this paper is going to discuss. And it will outline the followings:- Biography of the two personalities; Effort of Sheikh Abdullahion the studies of syntax and morphology in West Africa; Effort of Sultan Muhammad Bello on the studies of syntax and morphology in west Africa; Conclusion.

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Coetzee, Emile C. "A tale of two graves: A biography of Lance Corporal Wijnand “Victor” Hamman, 1893-1917." New Contree 79 (December 30, 2017): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/nc.v79i0.91.

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The biography of Lance-Corporal Wijnand “Vic” Hamman is quite unique in comparison to the stories of his peers who fought with him in the trenches during the First World War (1914-1918). This statement rests on the fact that he has two full-size graves but only rests in one of them. His remains were buried in the Browne Copse Commonwealth cemetery, outside Fampoux in France, but he has another grave in his hometown of Lichtenburg in the North-west Province, South Africa. This unique attribute inspired a research study to find out more about who he was and why he indeed has two graves after he fell in battle on the 12th of April 1917. His biography could however only be based on the limited amount of sources available about him and hence not every aspect about his life could be certified with a reliable source; resulting in several possibilities being considered to write his biography. Yet, enough was available to write the story of a young man from Lichtenburg who joined the 2nd South African Infantry Regiment to fight against the German Kaiser’s forces in France. His graves serve as reminders about the mysteries regarding his life, his family and why he was not commemorated by the community of his hometown.

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Rugh, Jim. "Can Participatory Evaluation Meet the Needs of all Stakeholders? Evaluating the World Neighbors' West Africa Program." Practicing Anthropology 19, no. 3 (1997): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.19.3.2583486101lx2564.

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A manual the author wrote in the early 1980s encouraged leaders of rural community development programs to do their own participatory self-evaluation (for reference see biography at the end of this article). The methodology promoted by that manual has been successfully used by many programs around the world. But the question gets asked: Can such participatory evaluation methods be used when conducting major program evaluations? And, if so, can the needs and expectations of all stakeholders be met, including agency headquarters, board of directors, and donors?

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Newell, Stephanie. "An Introduction to the Writings of J. G. Mullen, An African Clerk, in the Gold Coast Leader, 1916–19." Africa 78, no. 3 (2008): 384–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0001972008000235.

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J. G. Mullen was a Gold Coast clerk who published his memoirs, in instalments, in the Gold Coast Leader from 1916 to 1919. In this unusual narrative, he describes his adventures in Cameroon before and during the First World War. His account combines real-life geographical and social details with flamboyant tropes probably derived from imperial popular literature. Mullen's biography and even identity have so far been otherwise untraceable. His text offers glimpses, always enigmatic, of the experience and outlook of a member of the new clerkly class of colonial West Africa. This contribution presents an edited extract from Mullen's text together with a contextualizing and interpretative essay. The full Mullen text is available in the online version of this issue of Africa.

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Kangira, Jairos. "Editorial note." Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 1, no. 3 (2020): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2020/v1n3a0.

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The themes of colonisation and decolonisation dominate in this issue of JoALLS. The colonisation of African communities by European forces was so inhuman and brutal that it left skeletons of African people littered in affected areas on the continent. The trails of murder, massacre, plunder and displacement of defenceless and innocent Africans by marauding, bloodthirsty colonialists are unsavory, heart-rending and disgusting. The crucial role literature plays in documenting the trials and tribulations of Africans cannot be overemphasized. The historical novel and (auto) biography have always become handy in this regard, although caution should be taken on which perspective they are framed. As you read this issue, you will realise that the words 'Germans' and 'genocide' are what linguists call 'collocates'; in other words, you cannot talk of one of these two words without the other as the Germans' heinous crimes were meant to decimate the Herero and Nama populations of Germany South West Africa, now Namibia. The violence against the indigenous African people was not only frightening but also sickening.

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Muyoba, Liwakala. "African Hermeneutics of Western education: A case of Yuyi Wamunyima Mupatu of Barotseland, Zambia, 1897-1982." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science 06, no. 10 (2022): 515–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2022.61028.

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An African proverb states that “until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”. This is the case of the historiography of Western education in Africa, which was largely Eurocentric. Unlike many studies that are Eurocentric, the objectives of this article were to examine the history of education in Africa from the African’s point of view; to demonstrate that Africans were not passive recipients, but that they engaged Western education in a dialogue with indigenous African education. This has been achieved by examining the career of Yuyi Wamunyima Mupatu of Mongu-Lealui district, a man who made a significant contribution to the hermeneutics of Western education in Zambia. He became a teacher at Barotse National School but was twice fired for refusing to compromise on quality education. Mupatu led a movement that significantly decolonized education in a time which was forbidding. He established Makaplulwa School in 1945 but the school was closed due to local governance challenges in 1949. In 1963, the school reopened. Today Makapulwa School stands as Mupatu Combined School in Limulunga district. The study concludes that Mupatu’s is contribution to education is a demonstration of African people’s capability to interpret western culture and also their desire to retain what was African even as they embraced the West. It is a story of adoption, interpretation and adaptation of Western education. Mupatu was a product of both the Barotse indigenous education and Western education. To present this discourse, I relied on primary sources, mainly information from those who knew him; family members and his former pupils, his biography and other secondary sources on the subject. The study is significant because it highlights the people’s aspirations of what education should be in Africa.

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Law, Robin. "Madiki Lemon, the “English Captain” at Ouidah, 1843–1852: an Exploration in Biography." History in Africa 37 (2010): 107–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.2010.0020.

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The history of the commercial entrepôts on the Atlantic coast of West Africa in the pre-colonial period is far from being a neglected topic, but has attracted considerable academic research. The potential value of a biographical (or prosopographical) approach to the social history of such coastal communities has also long been recognized, the classic pioneering example being Margaret Priestley's study of the Brew family of Anomabu, on the Gold Coast (modern Ghana), founded by the locally settled Irish slave-trader Richard Brew (died 1776). The case of the Brews, however, presents exceptionally favorable conditions for the reconstruction both of individual biography and of collective family history, in that the founder was literate and generated a considerable corpus of written records which survives to the present, while for subsequent generations of the family the early establishment of an institutionalized form of British proto-colonial administration on the Gold Coast also yielded relatively abundant documentation.Elsewhere on the coast, and more particularly for individuals and families lower down the social scale, the amount of evidence available is likely to be much more limited and fragmentary. The present article represents a tentative attempt at a biography of a person of much lesser eminence than Richard Brew or his descendants, which may therefore be regarded as a venture into the field of subaltern history. To the extent that it also concerns someone who generated no documentation of his own, but whose life has to be reconstructed from incidental references in the records of the external agencies with whom he had dealings, it is also conceived as a methodological exploration of the possibility of extracting an African voice and perspective from European (and Eurocentric) sources.

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Beck Cohen, Stephanie. "Quilting in West Africa: Liberian Women Stitching Political, Economic, and Social Networks in the Nineteenth Century." Arts 12, no. 3 (2023): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts12030097.

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Quilts occupy a liminal position in the histories of art and material culture. Centering analyses around specific artworks like Martha Ricks’ 1892 Coffee Tree quilt, as well as investigating women’s writing about their material production, illuminates ignored narratives about the ways black women participated in international social, political, and economic networks around the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Quilters who emigrated from the United States to Liberia in the nineteenth century incorporated an aesthetic heritage from the American South with new visual vocabularies developing alongside the newly independent nation. Artists relied on networks with abolitionists in the United States and local textile knowledge to source materials for their work. Finished quilts circulated in local and international contexts, furthering social, political, and economic objectives. Like Harriet Powers’ bible quilts, Ricks’ quilts gained fame through exhibition and a whimsical artist’s biography. Quilts’ fragility as natural-fiber textiles in a tropical climate makes a finding a body of works difficult to examine as there are no extant Liberian quilts from the nineteenth century. However, it is possible to patch together a network of women artists, their patrons, and audiences from West Africa to North America and Europe through creative investigation of diverse historical records, including diary entries, letters, newspaper articles, and photographs. I argue that by examining Martha Ricks’ artworks, self-presentation through portraiture, and published writing, it is possible to envision a new narrative of black women’s participation in visualizing the newly-minted Republic of Liberia for Atlantic audiences.

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Books on the topic "Africa, west, biography"

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name, No. Fela: From west Africa to west Broadway. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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Trevor, Schoonmaker, ed. Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway. Palgrave MacMillan, 2003.

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Turman, Thomas Lee. WAWA: West Africa wins again. Xlibris, 2003.

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Kingsley, Mary Henrietta. Travels in West Africa. Dent, 1992.

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Kwame, Arhin, Arhin Kwame, Skinner David E, and Olusanya G. O, eds. West African colonial civil servants in the nineteenth century: African participation in British colonial expansion in West Africa. African Studies Centre, 1985.

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Coughlan, William. WaWa West Africa: A coming of age memoir. Balboa Press, 2011.

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Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932, ed. A life for Africa: Rev. Adolphus Clemens Good, Ph. D., American missionary in Equatorial West Africa. Fleming H. Revell, 1986.

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Russell, Arthur Colin. Gold Coast to Ghana: A happy life in West Africa. Pentland Press, 1996.

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1929-, Murray Jocelyn, ред. Prophet Harris, the ʻBlack Elijahʼ of West Africa. E.J. Brill, 1994.

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Collier, Melvin J. Mississippi to Africa: A journey of discovery. Heritage Books, 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "Africa, west, biography"

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"Chapter two. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa." In Biography and the Black Atlantic. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812208702.48.

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Webster, Jane. "From Ship to Shore." In Materializing the Middle Passage. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199214594.003.0007.

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Abstract Chapter 7 considers the European manufactured goods bartered for captives on the West African coast. It asks: Where were these goods made? How had they been selected and purchased? How were they shipped? How were they exchanged, and, finally, in what ways were they used in Africa? The slave trade was a barter trade, involving material dialogues that, it is argued, impacted on the practices of the Europeans who bartered for captives, the Africans who supplied them, and the communities to whom trade goods were redistributed. The discussion centres on three artefact categories especially important to the British trade: glass beads, cotton cloth, and sheet brasswares. They are considered through the lens of object biography—a relational approach to material culture that explores the interactions between people and things and explores how the meanings of objects accumulate and are transformed over time and context.

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"7 Biography (Tarjama) in the Islamic Tradition according to the ʿUlamāʾ". У West African ʿulamāʾ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina. BRILL, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004291942_009.

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Davies, Peter N. "Lord Kylsant." In The Trade Makers. Liverpool University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780968128893.003.0007.

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This chapter presents the aftermath of Alfred Lewis Jones’ death and reports the changes made to Elder Dempster by his successors, Owen Cosby Philipps, known as Lord Kylsant, and Lord Pirrie. It provides a brief biography and career history for the pair but focuses mainly on the decisions made by them towards the company, its finances and professional relationships, and compares their actions to those of their predecessor. The chapter explores the opportunist decisions made by John Holt and Company after Jones’ death and describes the allowances made towards him by Philipps and Pirrie. The chapter concludes with the introduction of the Lever Brothers and their company, West African Oils Limited, and reports the shipping restrictions they faced at the hands of Elder Dempster. It ends with the lingering threat of the Lever Brothers waiting for an opportunity to bypass these restrictions.

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