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Author : Ivor Wilks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Northern Factor in Ashanti History written by Ivor Wilks and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benedikt Pontzen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108901506
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Islam in a Zongo written by Benedikt Pontzen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on empirical and archival research, this ethnography is an exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in Ghana's Asante region, demonstrating the interconnectedness of Islam with people's lives in a zongo community.
Author : Ivor Wilks
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521379946
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Asante in the Nineteenth Century written by Ivor Wilks and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989-09-29 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975, and reprinted with additional introductory material in 1989, this book provides an in-depth account of Asante history during the nineteenth century. The focus of the book is on the broad political development of Asante society, concentrating on the material factors which affected the decision making process during various administrations. This focus reflects the complex and sophisticated nature of the Asante social system, a system which had its basis in administrative unity and a core idea of nationhood. The text utilizes the abundant archival, printed and oral source materials available regarding the Asante, offering the reader a profound insight into the nature and structure of a remarkable society. This is a fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in African history.
Author : J. Vansina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429941455
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Historian in Tropical Africa written by J. Vansina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1964 these papers discuss the recovery and critical interpretation of oral traditions and written documents, problems of dating and analysis of material from archaeological sites, the use of linguistic evidence, and methods of historical reconstruction concerning techniques, art styles and changes in social organization. Consideration is also given to wider problems concerning the pre-colonial history of certain parts of Africa. Attitudes towards the study and understanding of various aspects of historical develoment both among scholars and the public are also reviewed.
Author : J. D. Fage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521209816
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Africa written by J. D. Fage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the period from c.1050 to c.1600, in which Iron Age cultures passed into stages of maturity.
Author : Kit W. Wesler
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865436107
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Historical Archaeology in Nigeria written by Kit W. Wesler and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case studies included in this collection range from the coast of Lagos State, through the Yoruba inland, once dominated by Oyo and Ibadan, to Benin City, seat of the great pre-colonial empire, north to Zungeru, seat of colonial administration under Lord Lugard, and the Jos Plateau, homeland of the Ron; and south again to the Niger Delta, where the Nigerian people first began their historic interaction with Portuguese explorers.
Author : Joseph S.Kaminski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351956876
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana written by Joseph S.Kaminski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture. There are seven ivory trumpet ensembles in residence at the Asante Manhyia Palace in Kumase, and ivory trumpets are blown at every Akan court. The Asante trumpets, which are made from elephant tusks, are symbols of Asante strength and have an important role in Asante cosmology. Surrogate speech is performed via lipped tones through a tusk in praise of the Asante royal ancestors and the living Asante king. This book contains transcriptions and analyses of surrogate speech texts and their accompanying ensemble songs. When several ensembles play simultaneously as a representation of power, they make staggered entrances, beginning separate songs in order. This results in a simultaneous performance of separate songs. This phenomenon, which Kaminski has termed 'sound-barrage', is an ancient aesthetic, and is performed to protect the kingdom and the ancestors. It is both spiritual and acoustical. This 'sound barrage' is believed to act in the metaphysical world, dispelling evil spirits from court rituals, ancestor venerations, and funerals, for there is a spirit in the sound.
Author : James Smoot Coleman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa written by James Smoot Coleman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James S. Coleman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520311752
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa written by James S. Coleman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book focus attention on the role of political groups in the new functioning and development of the new African societies and the political systems of which they are a part. The authors, all recognized authorities, have sought to identify and compare the manifestations of the general tendency among the new states of Tropical Africa toward the establishment and consolidation of one-party political systems, and to examine, in the light of this general trend, the different dimensions of the problem of integration. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Crowder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135781397
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Colonial West Africa written by Michael Crowder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this volume provides a selection of Michael Crowder's wrtings on the impact of colonial rule in West Africa and African reaction to it from the conquest to independence. Key themes include the impact of European culture on African culture; the resistance of Africans to European conquest; African reaction to colonial rule; the differences between French and British administrative, social and economic politices and the consequences of these differences for those subjected to them; the extent to which Africans accepted the new socio-political strucrrues imposed on them and the point at which they began to take control over them; and finally the importance or otherwise of the colonial period in African history as a whole.
Author : Michelle Apotsos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317275543
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa written by Michelle Apotsos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village’s current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.
Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521290050
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Literacy in Traditional Societies written by Jack Goody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-12-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the importance of writing on the development of different societies.
Author : Edmund Abaka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351184059
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Asante World written by Edmund Abaka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons, Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress, governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers, epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.
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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230370691
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Power and State Formation in West Africa written by and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th century to the second half of the 18th. The book examines how political entities in Nzema were structured territorially, as well as the formation of ruling groups and aspects of their political, economic, and military actions.
Author : Harvey M. Feinberg
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871697974
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Africans and Europeans in West Africa written by Harvey M. Feinberg and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1989 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfgang Behn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047414357
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus written by Wolfgang Behn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third and last of the three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.
