Kola Is God's Gift

Edmund Abaka

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• Kola is a "food-drug"--like coffee, tea, coca, and tobacco--a substance considered neither food nor medicine, but used to induce "flights of fancy." I... Lees meer

Themes in West Africa's History

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa's history. In Themes in West Africa's History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his c... Lees meer

Civil Disorder Is the Disease of Ibadan

Ruth Watson

• Paperback | Engels | Western African Studies
• Civil Disorder Is the Disease of the Ibadan is a study of chieftaincy and political culture in Ibadan, the most populous city in Britain's largest Wes... Lees meer

Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958

Elizabeth Schmidt

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• In September 1958, Guinea claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Communit... Lees meer

Themes in West Africa's History

• Paperback | Western African Studies
• Designed as a textbook for the undergraduate and graduate levels. Lees meer

Nkrumah & the Chiefs

Richard Rathbone

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• Kwame Nkrumah, who won independence for Ghana in 1957, was the first African statesman to achieve world recognition. Nkrumah and his movement also bro... Lees meer

Lineages of State Fragility

Joshua B Forrest

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• In Guinea-Bissau, as elsewhere in Africa, there is a disjuncture between the central state and rural civil society. It is this significant and overloo... Lees meer

Nkrumah & the Chiefs

Richard Rathbone

• Paperback | Engels | Western African Studies
• Kwame Nkrumah, who won independence for Ghana in 1957, was the first African statesman to achieve world recognition. Nkrumah and his movement also bro... Lees meer

Ghanaian Popular Fiction

Stephanie Newell

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• This is a study of the 'unofficial' side of African fiction--the largely undocumented writing, publishing, and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks--wh... Lees meer

Between the Sea & the Lagoon

Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

• Hardcover | Western African Studies
• The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes hailed as the quintessential sea fishermen of the West African coast, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a mar... Lees meer

Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature

Laura T Murphy

• Paperback | Engels | Western African Studies
• Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West ... Lees meer

Between the Sea and the Lagoon

Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

• Paperback | Engels | Western African Studies
• This study offers a "social interpretation of environmental process" for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana. The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes hailed as... Lees meer

Slavery and Reform in West Africa

Trevor R Getz

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the regi... Lees meer

Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier

Paul Nugent

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands, Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier challenges the con... Lees meer

Fighting the Slave Trade

Sylviane A Diouf

• Hardcover | Engels | Western African Studies
• While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their fa... Lees meer

Ouidah

Robin Law

• Paperback | Western African Studies
• Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of ... Lees meer

Smugglers Secessionists & Loyal Citizens

Paul Nugent

• Paperback | Engels | Western African Studies
• The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands, Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier challenges the con... Lees meer

Ghanaian Popular Fiction

Stephanie Newell

• Paperback | Engels | Western African Studies
• This is a study of the 'unofficial' side of African fiction--the largely undocumented writing, publishing, and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks--wh... Lees meer

Fighting the Slave Trade

Sylviane A Diouf

• Paperback | Engels | Western African Studies
• While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their fa... Lees meer

Eurafricans in Western Africa

George E Brooks

• Paperback | Engels | Western African Studies
• Eurafricans in Western Africa traces the rich social and commercial history of western Africa. The most comprehensive study to date, it begins prior t... Lees meer