Igboland is among the areas ofWest Africa that experienced the most intensive slave-trading
activities during the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Although the total number of …

In February 2005, the National Assembly of France passed a law that asserted 'the positive
role of the French presence abroad, especially in North Africa', while directing educators to …

This article attempts to assess the importance of Asante influence in the consolidation of the
Fante in the eighteenth century. It shows at the outset that mis-translation of Willem …

Long‐standing historical debates on the alleged depopulation of parts of south‐eastern
Africa in the period between 1820 and 1835 may well have been affected by the use of pre …

Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave
trade, 1700 to 1807. The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its …

This book looks at Central Africa in the moment before the collapse of British colonial
authority. Beginning with a lively study of Northern Rhodesia, the book moves outward in …

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 …

This article tells a new history of the Cold War, of Ghana's early post-colonial foreign policy,
and the formation of Ghana's national identity through its diplomatic, economic, and …

Abstract Nigerian scholar Adekeye Adebajo's book The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold
War centres on the 1884 1885 conference in Germany, presided over by the 'Iron …

The success of Thomas Pakenham's The Scramble for Africa is already beyond question. 1
The book was widely and favourably reviewed when it first appeared in December 1991; it …