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Afroz, Sultana. "The Role of Islam in the Abolition of Slavery and in the Development of British Capitalism." American Journal of Islam and Society 29, no. 1 (2012): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v29i1.326.

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West Indian scholars have overlooked the role played by the Muslim leadership in West Africa in bringing an end to the transatlantic trade in Africans. The jihād movements in West Africa in the late eighteenth century gave political unity to West Africa challenging the collaboration of European trade in Africans with the pagan slave traders. West Indian historiography, while emphasizing European abolitionist movements, ignores the Islamic unity (tawhīd) of humankind, which brought together many ethnically heterogeneous enslaved African Muslims to successfully challenge the West Indian plantati

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Afroz, Sultana. "The Role of Islam in the Abolition of Slavery and in the Development of British Capitalism." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29, no. 1 (2012): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v29i1.326.

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West Indian scholars have overlooked the role played by the Muslim leadership in West Africa in bringing an end to the transatlantic trade in Africans. The jihād movements in West Africa in the late eighteenth century gave political unity to West Africa challenging the collaboration of European trade in Africans with the pagan slave traders. West Indian historiography, while emphasizing European abolitionist movements, ignores the Islamic unity (tawhīd) of humankind, which brought together many ethnically heterogeneous enslaved African Muslims to successfully challenge the West Indian plantati

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Crowder, Michael. "Tshekedi Khama, Smuts, and South West Africa." Journal of Modern African Studies 25, no. 1 (1987): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00007588.

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Ever since the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, Jan Smuts, one of its principal architects, had visions of transforming it into a ‘Greater South Africa’,. The South Africa Act of 1909 which established the Union provided for the eventual incorporation of other African Territories. It madespecific reference to Southern Rhodesia and the neighbouring British dependencies of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland, Known collectively as a High Commission Terretories because, pending transfer to the Union, they were admitted by the British High Commissioner to So

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Editor-In-Chief. "The First African Doctors-West Africa Medical Service of the British Army." Postgraduate Medical Journal of Ghana 9, no. 2 (2022): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.60014/pmjg.v9i2.242.

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Muojama, Olisa Godson. "Victims of Nationality: German Civilian Internment in British West Africa during the Second World War." Journal of World History 35, no. 3 (2024): 439–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2024.a935012.

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Abstract: The captivity of enemy civilians in wartime was a radical transformation of social relations. Earlier studies on the internment of enemy aliens during the Second World War have omitted the West African experience. This study examines German civilian internment in West Africa during World War II, with reference to Nigeria and Cameroon under British Mandate. Primary archival sources provided data for its analysis. It argues that the internment of German subjects in British West Africa during World War II was a reflection of the legacy of the First World War and a part of the empire-wid

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Blakemore, Richard J. "West Africa in the British Atlantic: Trade, Violence, and Empire in the 1640s." Itinerario 39, no. 2 (2015): 299–327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115315000480.

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The importance of Africa and African agency in the formation of the Atlantic world is now widely acknowledged by historians, but Africa has drawn less attention than other regions in analyses of the British Atlantic. Drawing upon the nascent methodology of global microhistory, this article contributes to a scholarly rebalancing by examining two maritime lawsuits from the 1640s concerning British voyages to Senegambia and Sierra Leone, both of which resulted in conflict between British seafarers and with their African trading partners. A close study of the documents surviving from these lawsuit

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Graden, Dale. "“The Voice of Agitation Should Roll across the Broad Atlantic”." Journal of Global Slavery 9, no. 3 (2024): 271–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00903001.

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Abstract Scholars have provided impressive analyses of the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas and its demise over the past four decades, this led by contributions to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database ( https://www.slavevoyages.org/ ). England played a decisive role in the suppression of that traffic after prohibition of British participation in 1808, this partly achieved by British interceptions of slave vessels by its West Africa Squadron (1819–1867) and the establishment of Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1819–1871). Given a North Atlantic Ocean

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Samson, Anne. "Duty to Empire? South Africa's Invasion of German South West Africa, 1914-1918." African Research & Documentation 128 (2015): 10–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00023475.

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Before war broke out in August 1914, the Union of South Africa had determined to include the German colony of South West Africa in the Union fold if ever an opportunity arose. So, when Britain went to war on 4 August 1914, the British War Cabinet request that South Africa put the German wireless stations in the South West African territory out of action was likely to be met with favourable response. It was, but not by all as this paper will set out.In 1914, South Africa as a country was only four years old and was still trying to heal the wounds caused by the Anglo-Boer or South African War of

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Samson, Anne. "Duty to Empire? South Africa's Invasion of German South West Africa, 1914-1918." African Research & Documentation 128 (2015): 10–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00023475.

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Before war broke out in August 1914, the Union of South Africa had determined to include the German colony of South West Africa in the Union fold if ever an opportunity arose. So, when Britain went to war on 4 August 1914, the British War Cabinet request that South Africa put the German wireless stations in the South West African territory out of action was likely to be met with favourable response. It was, but not by all as this paper will set out.In 1914, South Africa as a country was only four years old and was still trying to heal the wounds caused by the Anglo-Boer or South African War of

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de Haas, Michiel. "The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda." Journal of Economic History 81, no. 4 (2021): 1098–136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050721000462.

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Cash-crop diffusion in colonial Africa was uneven and defied colonizers’ expectations and efforts, especially for cotton. This study investigates how agricultural seasonality affected African farmers’ cotton adoption, circa 1900–1960. A contrast between British Uganda and the interior of French West Africa demonstrates that a short rainy season and the resulting short farming cycles generated seasonal labor bottlenecks and food security concerns, limiting cotton output. Agricultural seasonality also had wider repercussions, for colonial coercion, investment, and African income-earning strategi

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Oluwaseun Osadola. "Discourse On Western Development Plans In Post-Colonial British West Africa." Economit Journal: Scientific Journal of Accountancy, Management and Finance 3, no. 4 (2023): 243–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/economit.v3i4.1020.

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This scholarly discourse seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Western Development Plan that was executed in British West Africa during the post-colonial era. Academics have examined the portrayal of the British colonial government from different viewpoints and perspectives. Distinguished African academics have thoroughly examined this topic from an angle of self-interest, whereas highly regarded European scholars have analysed it from the standpoint of imperialism. The connections and affiliations between African states and their European counterparts have had negative consequences

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Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. "Rhetorical Construction of West Africain Travels In West Africa." Tribhuvan University Journal 29, no. 1 (2016): 203–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/tuj.v29i1.25984.

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Viewed from David Spurr’s lenses developed in “The Rhetoric of Empire,” Mary Kingsley produces knowledge of West Africa and establishes a claim over her in her travelogue Travels in West Africa. Through the deployment of surveillance, appropriation, debasement and negation, she draws an ambivalent picture of Africa: one associated with filth, defilement, danger, darkness and death and the other endowed with natural vegetation and resources. Both sides of the picture call for the arrival of the British to improve the lifestyle of the Africans and to utilize the natural resources.

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Afeadie, Philip Atsu. "The Semolika Expedition of 1904: A Participant Account." History in Africa 31 (2004): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361541300003375.

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British imperialism in west Africa during the late nineteenth century is known to be the product of the interrelations between expansionist forces at the center of empire and those at the periphery on the one hand, and the relationship between the peripheral forces and African circumstances on the other hand. Expansionist forces at Whitehall included nationalistic sentiments and inter-European rivalry, economic considerations, and public reactions to these motivations. Of the expansionist forces at the outposts of empire, pressure from commercial interest groups and the activities of the men o

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Olukoju, Ayodeji. "‘King of West Africa’? Bernard Bourdillon and the Politics of the West African Governors' Conference, 1940–1942." Itinerario 30, no. 1 (2006): 17–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300012511.

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The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 and the collapse of French resistance to the German onslaught a year later were momentous events which had far-reaching implications for France, Britain, and their colonies. In West Africa, the war affected existing patterns of inter-state relations within and across the French/British imperial divides, which were further complicated for the British by the emergence of two blocs in the French colonial empire – Vichy and Free French. It was in this context that the West African Governors' Conference was created in 1940 to coordinate the war

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Olukayode, FISHER Augustus, OLUDEMI Akintayo Shoboyejo, and ADEBOGUN, Babatunde Olayinka. "DECOLONISATION IN AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and Arts 1, no. 1 (2022): 41–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.47709/ijmdsa.v1i1.1647.

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In essence, African political thought evolved as a result of colonialism and the anti-colonial reactions of first-order African elites. The debate among the episodic and the epochal school of thought over the place of colonialism in African political thought suggests that it took colonialism to inform the people of the continent that they were Africans. Also that Africa had a glorious pre-colonial past. It offered the diverse peoples of the continent a rallying point for unity. This unity was the basis of the anti-colonial reactions especially in the decade before political independence in Afr

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Law, Robin. "The Royal African Company of England's West African Correspondence, 1681-1699." History in Africa 20 (1993): 173–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171971.

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This paper draws attention to an ambitious project in the publication of source material for the precolonial history of West Africa, which has recently been approved for inclusion in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series of the British Academy. In addition to self-promotion, however, I wish also to take the opportunity to air some of the problems of editorial strategy and choice which arise with regard to the editing and presentation of this material, in the hope of provoking some helpful feedback on these issues.The material to be published consists of correspondence of the Royal African Comp

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Raifu, Isiaka Akande, Obianuju Ogochukwu Nnadozie, and Olaide Sekinat Opeloyeru. "Differences in Colonial Experience and the Institution-Economic Growth Nexus in West Africa." Jurnal Institutions and Economies 13, no. 2 (2020): 27–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/ijie.vol13no2.2.

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Does the quality of institutions affect economic growth in West African countries? Which institutional variable aids or harms economic growth in the region? Is the effect of institutions on economic growth in former French-colonised countries different from that of British-colonised countries? This study addresses these questions. Specifically, we first examined the effect of six institutional variables on economic growth for each of the 13 West African countries. Then, we employed panel data estimation techniques to examine the overall effect of the quality of institutions on the economies of

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Puchalski, Piotr. "Colonial Connections, Postcolonial Insecurities." Polish Review 70, no. 2 (2025): 28–49. https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.70.2.02.

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Abstract The article uses a postcolonial lens to analyze the triangular relationship between the Polish officers commissioned to the Royal West African Frontier Force, their British colleagues, and African inferiors in the years 1941–1943. I argue that despite the disparaging racial classification by the British, many Polish officers in West Africa aspired to become a sort of colonial intermediaries used not only for essential practical tasks during wartime but also to acquire the sympathy of Africans for the Allied cause. Others rejected any colonial ambitions altogether, becoming unexpected

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Andronova, Inna V., and Mama Dembele. "Mali’s participation in the West Africa’s integration processes." RUDN Journal of Economics 29, no. 3 (2021): 567–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2329-2021-29-3-567-574.

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The first ever integration bloc in Africa was formed back in the colonial era in 1910, when a number of British colonies were integrated. Modern integration processes in the African countries in the south of the Sahara began much later, from the early 1960s, when most of the former colonies gained independence, and it was during this period that the construction of a number of economic blocks began. The article reveals integration processes in West Africa and sub-Saharan African countries features. Integration as such is viewed as a complex procedure, with the success way which depends on many

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Andronova, Inna V., and Mama Dembele. "Mali’s participation in the West Africa’s integration processes." RUDN Journal of Economics 29, no. 3 (2021): 567–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2329-2021-29-3-567-574.

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The first ever integration bloc in Africa was formed back in the colonial era in 1910, when a number of British colonies were integrated. Modern integration processes in the African countries in the south of the Sahara began much later, from the early 1960s, when most of the former colonies gained independence, and it was during this period that the construction of a number of economic blocks began. The article reveals integration processes in West Africa and sub-Saharan African countries features. Integration as such is viewed as a complex procedure, with the success way which depends on many

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Darity, William. "British Industry and the West Indies Plantations." Social Science History 14, no. 1 (1990): 117–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014555320002068x.

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Is it not notorious to the whole World, that the Business of Planting in our British Colonies, as well as in the French, is carried on by the Labour of Negroes, imported thither from Africa? Are we not indebted to those valuable People, the Africans for our Sugars, Tobaccoes, Rice, Rum, and all other Plantation Produce? And the greater the Number of Negroes imported into our Colonies, from Africa, will not the Exportation of British Manufactures among the Africans be in Proportion, they being paid for in such Commodities only? The more likewise our Plantations abound in Negroes, will not more

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Muojama, Olisa Godson. "The Staff Question in German Plantations in the British Cameroons during World War II: The Employment of Staff from Jamaica and Malaya." European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 3 (2023): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejsocial.2023.3.3.397.

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Unlike the British and French territories in West Africa, the German territories of Cameroons and Togoland witnessed massive investment in plantations. These properties were taken over by the British and French during the First World War, 1914-1918. In the interwar years, 1919-1939, a good number of them were purchased and repossessed by the Germans who returned to West Africa after the war. Thus, the internment of German subjects in the Cameroons under the British mandate during the Second World War, 1939-1945, had implications for these German plantations. Earlier studies on the history of C

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MIRAN, JONATHAN. "‘STEALING THE WAY’ TO MECCA: WEST AFRICAN PILGRIMS AND ILLICIT RED SEA PASSAGES, 1920s–50s." Journal of African History 56, no. 3 (2015): 389–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853715000304.

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AbstractWest African participation in the pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) grew considerably throughout the first half of the twentieth century. This article examines the causes and consequences of failed British and Saudi efforts to channel, regulate, and control the trans-Sahelian flow of pilgrims and enforce a regime of mobility along the Sahel and across the Red Sea. Focusing specifically on Red Sea ‘illicit’ passages, the study recovers the rampant and often harrowing crossings of dozens of thousands of West African pilgrims from the Eritrean to the Arabian coasts. It examines multiple factors

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Dumett, Raymond E. "Sources for Mining Company History in Africa: The History and Records of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation (Ghana), Ltd." Business History Review 62, no. 3 (1988): 502–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3115546.

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The history of mining enterprise has recently become an important growth industry in both African and British Commonwealth business history. A number of important multinational mining corporations have in recent years opened their archives on assimilated or restructured parent companies active in overseas enterprise in the first half of this century. In the following essay, Professor Dumett surveys the extensive holdings of the leading British gold mining company in West Africa, the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation.

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Chick, John. "Cecil King, the Press, and Politics in West Africa." Journal of Modern African Studies 34, no. 3 (1996): 375–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00055518.

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Therewas a close and continuing relationship between the press and nationalist politics in colonial British West Africa which acquired a new dynamic towards the end of World War II. As the imperial impluse faltered, a younger, more radical African leadership appeared which saw newspapers as a means of carrying their message to a wider political class than that addressed by the relatively conservative pioneers. It had for some time been true that ‘The spontaneous expression of grievances, against this tax or that bureaucratic decision, was built up by a handful of…journalists into a generalized

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Decker, Stephanie. "Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950–1970." Business History Review 81, no. 1 (2007): 59–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680500036254.

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Development, modernity, and industrialization became dominant themes in corporate advertising in Africa in the 1950s and remained prevalent through the following two decades while many African nations were gaining independence. British businesses operating there created a publicity strategy that couched their presence in less developed countries in terms of a commitment and a positive contribution to the progress of the new states. Eventually, British companies tried to “Africanize” their corporate image through these campaigns.

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Austin, Gareth, and Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche. "Collusion and Competition in Colonial Economies: Banking in British West Africa, 1916–1960." Business History Review 81, no. 1 (2007): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680500036230.

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This article examines the collusion between the only two major banks to operate in British West Africa for most of the colonial period after 1916, Barclays and the Bank of British West Africa. The companies' records reveal that the alliance was more far-reaching than has previously been shown, escalating to include not only comprehensive price-fixing but also restrictions on the products offered. The article considers the reactions of African and European customers and the colonial governments, and analyzes the motives that sustained the collusion for so long and the political circumstances th

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Crowder, Michael. "‘Us’ and ‘them’: the International African Institute and the current crisis of identity in African Studies." Africa 57, no. 1 (1987): 109–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160186.

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In April 1986 British Africanists met to discuss the crisis facing African Studies in their country. The crisis was easily denned as one of lack of resources in universities where current cutbacks have particularly affected area studies; of the limited funds available to libraries specialising in African Studies; and of the severe reduction in the number of publishers willing to take on monographs relating to Africa, with the result that many scholars are ‘giving up all hope of being published'.1 Furthermore, lack of travel funds has meant that many Africanists teaching in Britain have not bee

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Akinyeye, Yomi. "The Air Factor in West Africa's Colonial Defence 1920–1945: A Neglected Theme." Itinerario 25, no. 1 (2001): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300005544.

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The colonial military history of British and French West Africa has received copious attention from historians and soldiers. The role of the region in the two world wars has also been discussed in one way or the other. However, in the discussion of West Africa's colonial military history and the role of the colonies in the two world wars, hardly any reference is made to the air factor. While discussions of colonial military history concentrate on infantry and naval exploits, those on the role of the colonies in the world wars concentrate on their importance as sources of raw materials and manp

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Field, David N. "Imaging the ‘Exotic Other’: John Wesley and the People of Africa." Wesley and Methodist Studies 15, no. 1 (2023): 64–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0064.

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ABSTRACT This article examines how John Wesley described the people of Africa, with particular reference to the people of West Africa and the ‘inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope’. While Wesley has been rightly praised for his opposition to the enslavement of Africans, his descriptions of African people involved editing material from various sources in order to serve theological and rhetorical purposes directed toward his British readers. This produced distorted depictions that did not justly describe the people of Africa. These depictions exhibited ‘invincible prejudice’ and failed to meet W

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Baum, Robert M., and Anne Phillips. "The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23, no. 2 (1992): 340. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/205296.

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Hargreaves, John D., and Anne Phillips. "The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies 23, no. 2 (1990): 328. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219355.

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Adjaye, Joseph, and Anne Phillips. "The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa." African Studies Review 35, no. 1 (1992): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524463.

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Gailey, Harry A., and Anne Phillips. "The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa." American Historical Review 96, no. 2 (1991): 576. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2163365.

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Dekar, Paul R. "Jamaican and British Baptists in West Africa, 1841–1888." Missiology: An International Review 29, no. 4 (2001): 433–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182960102900403.

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OGURA, NOBUYUKI. "POSTWAR MODERN MOVEMENT IN WEST AFRICA AND BRITISH ARCHITECTS." Journal of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Engineering (Transactions of AIJ) 368 (1986): 185–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3130/aijax.368.0_185.

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FIGUEIREDO, ESTRELA, and GIDEON F. SMITH. "Andrew Beveridge Curror (1811–1844): collecting natural history specimens while preventing the slave trade along the west coast of Africa." Phytotaxa 436, no. 2 (2020): 141–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.436.2.4.

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For nine years, from 1835 until his death, the British-born Andrew Beveridge Curror (27 October 1811–11 July 1844) served as surgeon on different ships of the British Royal Navy. From 1839 he sailed on ships of the West Africa Squadron, which aimed at the curtailment of the slave trade along Africa’s west coast. Curror additionally had a strong interest in natural history and collected from continental Africa and Atlantic islands what would become the type specimens of several plant names. We provide biographical information on Curror and an analysis and appreciation of his collecting activiti

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Hokin, Tess. "Divided to the Vein." Groundings Undergraduate 9 (April 1, 2016): 32–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36399/groundingsug.9.196.

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This article explores the development of West Indian cultural identity through its expression in poetry from and about the West Indies. Early forms of cultural expression from the Anglophone Caribbean were frequently realised through mimicry of British poetic forms, themes, and language. Later post-Independence poetry frequently denounced such reverence and aimed to identify the West Indian poetic voice with a conception of ‘Africa’ as an alternative parent culture. Ultimately however, neither Africa nor Britain provides a suitable comparison for the fragmented and diverse West Indies. Rather,

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Miles, William F. S. "Postcolonial Borderland Legacies of Anglo–French Partition in West Africa." African Studies Review 58, no. 3 (2015): 191–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2015.71.

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Abstract:More than five decades after independence, Africa still struggles with the legacies of colonial partition. On the territorial frontiers between the postcolonial inheritors of the two major colonial powers, Great Britain and France, the continuing impact of European colonialism remains most acute. On the one hand, the splitting of erstwhile homogeneous ethnic groups into British and French camps gave rise to new national identities; on the other hand, it circumvented any possibility of sovereignty via ethnic solidarity. To date, however, there has been no comprehensive assessment of th

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Mitchell, Matthew David. "“Legitimate commerce” in the Eighteenth Century: The Royal African Company of England Under the Duke of Chandos, 1720–1726." Enterprise & Society 14, no. 3 (2013): 544–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/es/kht038.

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Following the loss in 1712 of its previous monopoly over British trade with West Africa, the Royal African Company found itself unable to compete with smaller, lower-cost British slave traders and nearly collapsed entirely. Salvation seemed to arrive in 1720 in the person of James Brydges, the Duke of Chandos, who led a massive re-capitalization of the company and made the strategic decision to move its focus to the commodity trade between Europe and Africa and on the search for new botanical and mineral resources in Africa itself. While Chandos directed the RAC’s employees in implementing thi

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Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor. "Modernism in Late Imperial British West Africa: The Work of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, 1946-56." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65, no. 2 (2006): 188–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25068264.

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This article situates the educational architecture of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew in British West Africa in 1946-56 in the context of late British colonial policy. The analysis extends discursive readings of architecture with contemporary literary texts as aspects of what might be termed the material cultural fabric. These different forms of articulation illuminate the sociocultural dynamic underlying the migration of modernism in the postwar era, and the extent to which the movement affected and was appropriated by British colonial enterprise. It also discloses modernism's simultaneous disrupti

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Fonju, Dr Njuafac Kenedy. "From the 12 Principal Appointed German Colonial Perpetrators of the First Holocaust in Namibia (PAGCPFHN) through the 18 British Settlers South African Racist Minority Agents (BSSARMA) to the 7 United Nations Appointed Commissioners Related to the Namibian Question (UNACRNQ) and Independence at the Down of the Cold War 1883-1990." Cross-Currents: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal on Humanities & Social Sciences 8, no. 9 (2022): 115–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.36344/ccijhss.2022.v08i09.001.

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This paper covers a period of 107 years (1883-1990) dealing with the identification of 37 diplomatic agents in South West Africa there after Namibia with 12 Germans from 1883 to 1915, 18 British South African racist administrators from 1915 to 1990 and intervention with 7 United Nations Commissioners 1966-1988. The country became one of the most interested historical Sub-Saharan African country throughout the history of European colonization of Africa and an African country obtaining the League of Nations Mandate over another African country but dragging her feet for 75 years to grant independ

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Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove. "John Rankin. Healing the African Body: British Medicine in West Africa 1800–1860." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 71, no. 4 (2016): 478–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrw023.

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Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous Van Waijenburg. "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965." Journal of Economic History 72, no. 4 (2012): 895–926. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050712000630.

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Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak institutions, or ethnic heterogeneity. But has African poverty been a persistent historical phenomenon? This article checks such assumptions against the historical record. We push African income estimates back in time by presenting urban unskilled real wages for nine British African colonies (1880–1965). We find that African real wages were well above subsistence level and that they rose significantly over time. Moreover, in

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Marty, Simeon. "Thinking Black in the Blitz: Harold Moody, the League of Coloured Peoples and its shift of Pan-African ideas in Second World War London." Esboços: histórias em contextos globais 28, no. 48 (2021): 407–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2021.e78269.

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London, as the capital of the British Empire, was the centre for imperial structures and networks in the middle of the 20th century. The city enabled and regulated the transport of people, ideas and wealth. Similarly, it offered space for the development of ideas and became a venue for the critique of colonialism. This article examines how the London-based Black pressure group League of Coloured Peoples shifted its political vision from moderate reforms for equal rights for all inhabitants of the British Empire towards Pan-African forms of independence beyond the concept of independent nation

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Meredith, David. "The Colonial Office, British Business Interests and the Reform of Cocoa Marketing in West Africa, 1937–1945." Journal of African History 29, no. 2 (1988): 285–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700023689.

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This article examines the actions of the British Colonial Office and British business interests in the international marketing of cocoa from Ghana and Nigeria in the later 1930s, when problems in cocoa marketing were brought to head by the expatriate firms forming a ‘Pool’ and the farmers responding to this — and to a sudden fall in their terms of trade — with a ‘hold-up’, which was followed by a British commission of inquiry, and during the second world war and immediate post-war era, when the C.O. imposed a marketing system designed by the expatriate merchant firms and subsequently decided t

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Irabor, David Omoareghan. "Colorectal Carcinoma: Why Is There a Lower Incidence in Nigerians When Compared to Caucasians?" Journal of Cancer Epidemiology 2011 (2011): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/675154.

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Carcinoma of the colon and rectum is the 2nd commonest cancer in the United States; the leading cancer being lung cancer. It has been estimated that 130,200 new cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed annually while 56,300 sufferers will die from the disease (Murphy et al., 2000). In developing countries especially West Africa, the rate has not yet reached such magnitude. This suggests that there may be factors either anthropomorphic or environmental which may be responsible for this. The paper acknowledges the reduced incidence of colorectal cancer in native West Africans living in Afric

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Lovejoy, Paul E. "The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa: A Review of the Literature." Journal of African History 30, no. 3 (1989): 365–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700024439.

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Recent revisions of estimates for the volume of the trans-Atlantic slave trade suggest that approximately 11,863,000 slaves were exported from Africa during the whole period of the Atlantic slave trade, which is a small upward revision of my 1982 synthesis and still well within the range projected by Curtin in 1969. More accurate studies of the French and British sectors indicate that some revision in the temporal and regional distribution of slave exports is required, especially for the eighteenth century. First, the Bight of Biafra was more important and its involvement in the trade began se

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van der Heyden, Ulrich. "Kolonialgeschichte Westafrikas – Exempel für Globalgeschichte." Das Historisch-Politische Buch (HPB): Volume 68, Issue 1 68, no. 1 (2020): 2–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3790/hpb.68.1.1.

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Osei-Tutu / John Kwadwo / Smith / Victoria Ellen (Ed.): Shadows of Empire in West Africa. New Perspectives on European Fortification. 368 S., Palgrave Macmillan, London 2018 Osei-Tutu / John Kwadwo (Ed.): Forts, Castles and Society in West Africa. Gold Coast and Dahomey, 1450 – 1960. 376 S., Brill, Leiden / Boston 2018 Wazi Apoh: Revelations of Domination and Resilience. Unearthing the buried Past of the Akpini, Akan, Germans and British at Kpando, Ghana. 336 S., Sub-Saharan Publishers, Legon-Accra 2019

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Kosecki, Krzysztof. "On metonymy and other forms of motivation for some Nigerian English expressions." Studia Anglica Resoviensia 21 (December 30, 2024): 97–111. https://doi.org/10.15584/sar.2024.21.7.

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Nigerian English (NE) gradually developed on the basis of British English (BE) in the wake of the British colonization of West Africa. Numerous expressions in both varieties have the same or closely similar forms but different meanings. Such differences are often motivated by the cognitive mechanism of metonymy. They involve two distinct paths of conceptualization and categories of usage: (i) expressions that do not function as metonymic sources in BE give rise to metonymies in NE; (i) the same metonymic sources in BE and in NE provide access to different extensions of the same targets in NE.

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