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Mastering the Niger

Author : David Lambert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226078069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Mastering the Niger written by David Lambert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery—as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle—was entangled with the production, circulation, and reception of geographical knowledge. The British empire banned the slave trade in 1807 and abolished slavery itself in 1833, creating a need for a new British imperial economy. Without ever setting foot on the continent, MacQueen took on the task of solving the “Niger problem,” that is, to successfully map the course of the river and its tributaries, and thus breathe life into his scheme for the exploration, colonization, and commercial exploitation of West Africa. Lambert illustrates how MacQueen’s geographical research began, four decades before the publication of the New Map, when he was managing a sugar estate on the West Indian colony of Grenada. There MacQueen encountered slaves with firsthand knowledge of West Africa, whose accounts would form the basis of his geographical claims. Lambert examines the inspirations and foundations for MacQueen’s geographical theory as well as its reception, arguing that Atlantic slavery and ideas for alternatives to it helped produce geographical knowledge, while geographical discourse informed the struggle over slavery.

Into the Niger Bend

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Niger Bend written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Necessary Architecture

Author : Alisia Tognon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000441105
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Necessary Architecture written by Alisia Tognon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niger is sand, light, and heat. Starting from the necessity of the Mission Catholique du Dosso, which has worked in Niger for several years, this book speaks about the Nigerien situation which is characterized by a countrywide spread of poverty. Along with studying the country’s environmental, geographical conditions, the book discusses raw earth architecture in both vernacular and contemporary contexts. A number of the most common techniques are described. The possibilities for these methods to adapt to the contemporary language of architecture without losing the technical and physical benefits inherent in them are illustrated. The book embraces some topics that are not common but highly relevant in the Developing World, such as identity through the evolution of architecture and the value of transmitting knowledge related to the vernacular building process. Nowadays, Niger’s condition is characterized by a lack of resources, both physical and cultural. Earthen technology appears to be a valid solution in this situation for the creation of an environmentally sustainable approach. The book aims to provide an overview of the possibility of constructing new buildings related to the climate and traditional context, applying vernacular technology and solutions in a contemporary application. Providing a balance between teaching vernacular knowledge and the contemporary architectural language could help face this out-of-resource situation, aiming to get comfortable and affordable living spaces.

Niger

Author : Robert B. Charlick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367172312
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Niger written by Robert B. Charlick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sketches the emergence and history of Niger, showing how its component societies were influenced by changes in the physical environment, the introduction of beliefs, and patterns of world trade. It presents a sharply drawn portrait of factors shaping the contemporary Sahelian nation.

Nigger

Author : Randall Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307538915
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Nigger written by Randall Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence—with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it. Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves?

Niger

Author : International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1475582986
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Niger written by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic growth is estimated to have increased to 4.6 percent in 2016 from 3.5 percent in 2015, helped by a strong 2016-17 crop year and despite continued weakness in the oil and mining sectors, adverse spillovers from the economic downturn in Nigeria and continued elevated security threats. Inflation remains subdued. Notwithstanding recent macroeconomic gains, Niger still ranks last on the UN’s Human Development Index with growth barely above the estimated rate of population growth (4.1 percent a year). President Issoufou secured a second term in the presidential and legislative elections held in February-March 2016, with the new administration reaffirming a focus on reinvigorating growth to create more employment opportunities, including by addressing infrastructure gaps, while strengthening food security.

Nomads of Niger

Author : Carol Beckwith
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810981256
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Nomads of Niger written by Carol Beckwith and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1993-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic celebration of the nomadic Wodaabe of Niger with a narrative that follows a herdsman and his family and kinsmen through one year's journey in parched, sub-Saharan Africa. This volume documents their life, culture, traditions and celebrations.

The Niger Journal of Richard and John Lander

Author : Richard Lander
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415329910
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Niger Journal of Richard and John Lander written by Richard Lander and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal of the Lander brothers provides a narrative of one of the most important missions of exploration in the history of West Africa. The editor's introduction contains much new material on the Landers and their journey drawn from hitherto unpublished sources, while an epilogue describes Richard Lander's last expedition to the Niger in 1832-4 and his death at Fernando Po. Originally published in 1965.

Narrative of an Expedition into the Interior of Africa

Author : MacGregor Laird
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136979468
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Narrative of an Expedition into the Interior of Africa written by MacGregor Laird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1971. This book detail an attempt to open a direct commercial intercourse with the inhabitants of Central Africa.Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Banco

Author : Jean Dethier
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874390519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Banco written by Jean Dethier and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographic survey of the adobe mosques of the inner Niger delta.

The Master of the Forge

Author : Harold Courlander
Publisher : Marlowe & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781569247891
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Master of the Forge written by Harold Courlander and published by Marlowe & Company. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Master of the Forge tells the tale of Numukeba, a blacksmith from the village of Naradugu, who abandons his forge to seek honor and nobility as a soldier of fortune. Numukeba arms himself with the weapons of his forge and talismans of magical power and sets out on an eleven-year journey through the land. He undergoes frequent trial by combat, outwits kings, heroes and beasts, descends into the land of the dead, is turned into a dog, and is sold into slavery. Throughout his travels he is harassed by the sorcerer Etchuba, the personification of chance, against whom Numukeba struggles to prove that man's destiny is not a series of accidents, but is written in steel as unbending as the weapons born in his forge.

My Nigeria

Author : Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0230112609
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book My Nigeria written by Peter Cunliffe-Jones and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.

Capitalist Nigger

Author : Chika Onyeani
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868425061
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Capitalist Nigger written by Chika Onyeani and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalist Nigger is an explosive and jarring indictment of the black race. The book asserts that the Negroid race, as naturally endowed as any other, is culpably a non-productive race, a consumer race that depends on other communities for its culture, its language, its feeding and its clothing. Despite enormous natural resources, blacks are economic slaves because they lack the 'devil-may-care' attitude and the 'killer instinct' of the Caucasian, as well as the spider web mentality of the Asian. A Capitalist Nigger must embody ruthlessness in pursuit of excellence in his drive towards achieving the goal of becoming an economic warrior. In putting forward the idea of the Capitalist Nigger, Chika Onyeani charts a road to success whereby black economic warriors employ the 'Spider Web Doctrine' – discipline, self-reliance, ruthlessness – to escape from their victim mentality. Born in Nigeria, Chika Onyeani is a journalist, editor and former diplomat.

Mastering the Flute with William Bennett

Author : Roderick Seed
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253035406
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Mastering the Flute with William Bennett written by Roderick Seed and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time the exercises and teaching methods of world-renowned flutist William Bennett are featured in one workbook. After more than a decade of study with Bennett and many of his students, Roderick Seed has documented the tools that have made Bennett known for his ability to give the flute the depth, dignity, and grandeur of the voice or the stringed instrument. Topics range from how to overcome basic technical difficulties, such as pitch control, to the tools for phrasing, prosody, tone, and intonation needed for playing with different dynamics and ranges of expression. Advanced musicians will find useful exercises and techniques in this book that will deepen their knowledge and enjoyment of making music and help them in their quest to master the flute.

The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000379051
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms. The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich culture, environment, and heritage. The creative imagination of the area’s artists has been fuelled by the area’s pressing concerns of indigenous peoples, minority discourse, environmental degradation, climate change, multinational corporations' greed, dictatorship, and people’s struggle for control of their resources. Taking a holistic approach to the Niger Delta experience, this book showcases artistic responses from literature, visual arts, and performances (such as masquerades, dances, and festivals). Chapters cover authors, artists, and performers such as Ben Okri, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Isidore Okpewho, J.P. Clark, and Bruce Onobrakpeya, as well as topics like the famous Benin bronze figures and Urhobo Udje dance. Affirming the wealth and diversity of the region which continues to inspire creative artistic productions, The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta will be of interest to researchers of African literature, arts, and other cultural productions.

Sacrifice

Author : Michelle Black
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593190947
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice written by Michelle Black and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking and affecting memoir from a gold-star widow searching for the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death, this book bears witness to the true sacrifices made by military families. When Green Beret Bryan Black was killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, his wife Michelle saw her worst nightmare become a reality. She was left alone with her grief and with two young sons to raise. But what followed Bryan's death was an even more difficult journey for the young widow. After receiving very few details about the attack that took her husband's life, it was up to Michelle to find answers. It became her mission to learn the truth about that day in Niger--and Sacrifice is the result of that mission. In this heartbreaking and revelatory memoir, Michelle uses exclusive interviews with the survivors of her husband's unit, research into the military leadership and accountability, and her own unique vantage point as a gold-star widow to tell a previously unknown story. Sacrifice is both an honest, emotional look inside a military marriage and a searing investigation of the people and decisions at the heart of the US military.

The Unfinished Revolution in Nigeria's Niger Delta

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367590161
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Unfinished Revolution in Nigeria's Niger Delta written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1990s heralded waves of spectacular forms of local resistance and globalized protest against oil exploitation and environmental pollution in oil-producing regions of the developing world. One of the most spectacular local uprisings against global oil multinationals was led by the Ogoni people who were protesting against the exploitation and marginalization of oil-producing ethnic minority communities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. However, the hanging on November 10, 1995 of nine Ogoni ethnic minority and environmental justice activists, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, only served to exacerbate protests in later years. Within a decade, dozens of locally rooted insurgent groups emerged in the Niger Delta and construed themselves as part of the social movement for ethnic minority rights and environmental justice which dates back to colonial times. However, the trajectory of the revolutionary momentum has changed over time, reflecting a mix of progressive, opportunistic and retrogressive trends. This book provides a critical study of the trajectory of struggles in the Niger Delta since 1995, paying attention to continuities and changes, including recent developments linked to the shift from local resistance, to the rupturing of the Presidential Amnesty peace deal (largely to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) and the resurgence low-intensity sporadic armed militancy--led by the Niger Delta Avengers militia among others. The contributors critically interrogate the nature of the region's political economy, socio-economic trends and trajectories over the past two decades. This collection also accentuates the lessons learnt, prospects for self-determination, socio-economic and environmental justice and peace in the aftermath of the hanging.