Colonial Africa
Pacification and Gender in Colonial Africa: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas
... employment opportunities exist for men. In matrilineal systems, men have weaker inheritance rights and weaker rights in divorce settlements, so they are more inclined to work longer hours for wage income, over which they ...
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Ecology, trade and states in pre colonial Africa
... Democracy. Although I do not have the data to test whether trade made central states more democratic, I am able to test whether trade predicts the level of democracy in lo- cal government for the ethnic groups in my ...
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Extractive Institutions in Colonial Africa
... West Africa and two French companies (Soci´ et´ e Commerciale de l’Ouest Africain, Compagnie fran¸caise de l’Afrique Occidentale) and a British one (Unilever) controlled between 50% and 90% of exports ...
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Ecology, trade and states in pre colonial Africa
... in Africa before colonial rule continue to shape its modern de- ...in Africa that inherited the legitimacy of a pre-colonial predecessor have done better (Englebert, ...West Africa with ...
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Ecology, trade, and states in pre colonial Africa
... participated in long-distance trade while possessing only limited internal markets high- lights the importance of trade spanning macro-ecological regions. In every case, rulers taxed trade. Though Toro conquered ...
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Ecology, trade and states in pre colonial Africa
... As far as I am aware, no data exist on pre-colonial African trade that could allow com- parison of a large number of societies. I follow Bates (1983) in assuming that the ability to trade across ecological zones ...
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Language in Education Policy and Practice in Post Colonial Africa: An ethnographic case study of The Gambia
... aware of the debate concerning the language in education in post-colonial contexts. My first trip was in 2002. I experienced unexpected situations with the ultimate result of having my prejudiced and stereotypical ...
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Introduction: the historicity of post-colonial Africa
... 2 Although when given the choice between their own leaders and a second colonization, Africans would no doubt prefer the first option (they have a lot to blâme fhe colonizers for as w[r] ...
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Pre-colonial Criminal Justice in Africa
... This final point seems to explain the views by all of the Eurocentric theorists: that what occurred in pre-colonial Africa despite the similarity of events or achievements, the pre-colonial Africans ...
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Military intervention and underdevelopment in africa: nigeria as a selected case
... In colonial Africa similarly, the political bungalow was impregnated by colonial predators through a deliberate instrumentality of the foreign ...British colonial Gangsters who used their own ...
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Colonial Legacies and Development Performance in Africa
... of colonial style on post-colonial development in ...French colonial styles; others see no discernable or significant distinction between the ...of colonial administration between Great ...
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The Political Economy of Land and Chieftaincy Disputes in Contemporary Africa: Examples from Central Nigeria
... Post-colonial Africa has witnessed intermittent and endemic upsurge in chieftaincy disputes, which obviously raises variety of security challenges, which are major setbacks to national ...in Africa ...
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Sawaba's rebellion in Niger (1964-1965): narrative and meaning
... post-colonial Africa, the invasion of Niger in 1964 by guerrillas of the outlawed Sawaba party was a dismal failure and culminated in a failed attempt on the life of President Diori in the spring of ...
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Rethinking resistance: revolt and violence in African history
... in colonial service, led by a British officer, proceeded through the western part of the Settlement eliminating the homesteads of those they described as Xhosa ...
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Giving Africa voice within global governance: oral history, human rights and the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council
... in Africa at the moment is that for far too long, Africa has been treated as a problem to be solved than a voice to be ...of Africa in global ...
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Gender and Sexual Abuses during the Italian Colonization of Ethiopia and Eritrea —The “Insabbiatti”, Thirty Years after
... One ex-colon named Oreste sollicited me to take his adopted daughter with me to France. He gave the nickname MICIA (a little cat name in Neapolitan Dialect) to this 14 years old teen ager during the mid-eighties. The ...
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Historical Factors for the Church’s Involvement in Holistic Community Development in East Africa
... with colonial masters mingled with contextual realities produced divergent results in the region, with significant variations from the originally intended ...
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION STRATEGIES IN IGBO RELIGION: THE OATH TAKING AND COVENANT MAKING PERSPECTIVES
... These strategies in Igbo Religion have shown resilience, significance and functionality from antiquity till these contemporary times. It is curious to know from where these Igbo cultural mechanisms draw their robustness ...
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Heart of Darkness: A Congolese Trove of Pain
... Having a pattern of beliefs that assume to be a dominant group of people, the white, since ancient time, held certain beliefs, ideas and feelings regarding black people. I mean that of black. Ideology may be thought of ...
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The colonial testament: An economic re-interpretation of Europe’s motives for colonizing Africa
... bring Africa effectively under the light of Christianity and to halt the slave trade which was unchristian (Foeken, ...that Africa should be evangelized was not a ...for Africa had begun with the ...
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