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The Goggam Chronicle
Av Getaun, Girma Getahun
Inbunden, 2014
1691 kr
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The Goggam Chronicle is a detailed regional history set within a framework of the traditional historical narrative of Ethiopia. Goggam, an ancient province bounded almost entirely by the Blue Nile, is one of the principal regions of the medieval Ethiopian polity. The chronicler, Aläqa Täklä Iyäsus, …
Empire and the Nuer
Sources on the Pacification of the Southern Sudan, 1898-1930
Av Johnson, Douglas H. Johnson
Inbunden, 2016
1248 kr
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The Nuer people of South Sudan hold a special if unwanted place in imperial history as the object of Britain's last 'pacification' campaign in Africa. Territorial conquest was completed with the annexation of the independent sultanate of Darfur in 1916, but military pacification continued …
Voices from the Chilembwe Rising
Witness Testimonies made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915
Inbunden, 2015
1957 kr
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The Chilembwe (or Nyasaland) Rising of January 1915 is one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of resistance in southern Africa. A small-scale event, suppressed within a matter of days, the Rising has been described by a leading historian (John Iliffe) as the only significant rebellion …
The Colonial Occupation of Katanga
The Personal Correspondence of Clément Brasseur, 1893-1897
Inbunden, 2018
1957 kr
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The Colonial Occupation of Katanga consists of a translated and richly annotated edition of the personal correspondence of Lieutenant (later Captain) Clément Brasseur, the military officer in charge of Lofoi, the first post of the Congo Free State in Katanga. The letters date from September 1893, …
Writing the New Nation in a West African Borderland
Ablɔɖe Safui (the Key to Freedom) by Holiday Komedja
Av Skinner, Kate Skinner
Inbunden, 2019
1394 kr
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This book rethinks the history of decolonisation and new nationhood in the Ghana-Togo borderlands, and speaks to an increasingly urgent debate on the production of knowledge about Africa. It does this through the close reading, translation and analysis of a unique primary source - a newspaper …
Consul John Beecroft's Journal of his Mission to Dahomey, 1850
Av Robin Law
Inbunden, 2019
1071 kr
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Consul John Beecroft's Journal of his Mission to Dahomey, 1850 features diary entries made by John Beecroft whilst he was British Consul in West Africa. His diplomatic mission to the kingdom of Dahomey (in what is today the Republic of Bénin) in 1850 was part of the British government's efforts to …
African Voices from the Inquisition, Vol. 1
The Trial of Crispina Peres of Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau (1646-1668)
Av Green, Toby Green
Inbunden, 2021
1384 kr
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This book contains some of the richest written material in existence for precolonial West Africa with unique insights into daily life in an Afro-Atlantic coastal trade settlement. Presenting the complete translated and annotated text of the Inquisition trial of Crispina Peres, an African woman born …
Journey which Father António Gomes made to the Empire of Manomotapa
Av Newitt, Malyn Newitt
Inbunden, 2021
1160 kr
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This account of south-central Africa, written in 1648, provides rare detail about the life of the African people of the region and their relations with the Portuguese creole community. As well as the work of the Jesuit mission, Gomes describes African gold mining, politics and social relations …
ʻHistory of Ashantiʼ by Otumfuo, Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II
Inbunden, 2022
1957 kr
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History of Ashanti is unusual, perhaps unique, in that it provides a long historical account of the great West African forest kingdom of Asante by a ruler of that society. Thus, it is African history written by an African king and his assistants. This is, without a doubt, a very important document …
Africa's Gold Coast Through Portuguese Sources, 1469-1680
Av Konadu, Kwasi Konadu
Inbunden, 2022
1514 kr
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The Portuguese produced the earliest records for regions in West Africa, none more important than the Gold Coast. This edited volume provides a unique collection of sources written in Portuguese, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish for Africa’s Gold Coast, from the late 15th to 17th century. …
The Archive of a Ugandan Missionary
Writings by and about Revd Apolo Kivebulaya, 1890s-1950s
Inbunden, 2021
1378 kr
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This source book of translated texts gives insight into the history of religious and social change in East Africa, from the 1890s until the 1930s, through the everyday concerns of African Christians. Originally in Luganda, the documents are written by, or about, an early Ugandan clergyman Apolo …
Corpus of Early Accounts of the Sunjata Epic, 1889-1959
Av Bulman, Stephen Bulman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1514 kr
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The Sunjata epic is a foundational oral narrative for Manding populations of West Africa and claims to describe the origins of the famed medieval empire of Mali. It is both a historical source and an artistic creation of West African oral specialists, the griots (jèliw). Despite its importance, the …
The Reports of Theophilus Opoku
A 19th-Century Gold Coast Pastor
Av Gilbert, Michelle Gilbert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2383 kr
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The Reports of Theophilus Opoku details the letters of a pastor living in the ethnically diverse and structurally fragile kingdom of Akuapem in the south-eastern Gold Coast during the 19th century. Between 1868 and 1908, Opoku wrote 37 reports to his employers — the board of the Basel Mission — …
The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms
The Tārīkh Ibn Al-Mukhtār of the Songhay Empire and the Tārīkh Al-Fattāsh of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi
Av Mauro Nobili, Zachary V. Wright m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2400 kr
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The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions, this volume provides key historical context from the Songhay Empire through the …
Great Sogolon’s House
The Epic of Manden According to the Condé Bards of Fadama (Guinea)
Av Conrad, David Courtney Conrad
Inbunden, 2025
3110 kr
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The unusually long version of West African Mande epic transcribed and translated for this book is an extravagant demonstration of the extremes to which Mande bardic artistry can be carried. The text presented here is the result of multiple recording sessions with an extraordinarily creative oral …
Towards a Reconstructed Past
Historical Text from Busoga, Uganda
Av D. W. Cohen
Inbunden, 1986
716 kr
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The texts, both written and aural, provide valuable perspectives on the second half of the 19th century in particular.
Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade
Paul Erdmann Isert's Jouney to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia (1788)
Inbunden, 1992
647 kr
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Isert's book, in the form of twelve letters evidently written for publication, has excited interest ever since it first appeared in 1788. Modern scholars have long had a great interest in, and need for, careful translations of early Danish sources on Africa; but though Isert's text was long ago …
`The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself` and Other Writings, by Otumfuo, Nana Agyeman Prempeh I
Av A Adu Boahen, Tom C McCaskie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
661 kr
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The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself is a key text for understanding the history of the great West African kingdom of Asante (now in Ghana). It is also an early - and perhaps the earliest - example of history writing in English by an African ruler and his amanuenses. It was …
