The Horse In West African History

Author : Robin Law
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429954557
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse in West African History written by Robin Law and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980 and here re-issued with an updated preface, this book deals with the role of the horse in the societies of West Africa during the pre-colonial period. It traces the history of its introduction and its diffusion within West Africa, and examines the problems of maintaining horses in such a harsh environment. The use of horses in warfare in analysed but the non-military aspects of the West African horse culture are also discussed, principally the use of horses as tokens of status and wealth. The book includes a review of the decline of the West African horse culture in the 20th century, reflecting the passing of a political system based on warfare and slavery.

Author : Daniel F. McCall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse in the West African History written by Daniel F. McCall and published by . This book was released on 1967* with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. D. Fage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on the History of Horses in West Africa written by J. D. Fage and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Chemeche
Publisher : Acc Art Books
ISBN 13 : 9781851496341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horse Rider in African Art written by George Chemeche and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning book presents a wealth of African art depicting the horse and its rider in a variety of guises, from Epa masks and Yoruba divination cups to Dogon sculptures and Senufo carvings.

Author : Robin Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horses, Firearms, and Political Power in the Pre-colonial West Africa written by Robin Law and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daud Malik Watts
Publisher : Afro Vision
ISBN 13 : 9780942843019
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 100,000 Horsemen of West Africa written by Daud Malik Watts and published by Afro Vision. This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David C. Conrad
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604131640
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires of Medieval West Africa written by David C. Conrad and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores empires of medieval west Africa.

Author : Robert O. Collins
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western African History written by Robert O. Collins and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses 500 years of western African history, beginning with the writings of travellers Ibn Battuta, Leo Africanus and Mungo Park. Topics covered include: religious wars; the trans-Sahara and cross-Atlantic slave trade; the French and British colonial periods; and modern times.

Author : Julius Lester
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593406184
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Cowboy, Wild Horses written by Julius Lester and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Lemmons is famous for his ability to track wild horses. He rides his horse, Warrior, picks up the trail of mustangs, then runs with them day and night until they accept his presence. Bob and Warrior must then challenge the stallion for leadership of the wild herd. A victorious Bob leads the mustangs across the wide plains and for one last spectacular run before guiding them into the corral. Bob's job is done, but he dreams of galloping with Warrior forever to where the sky and land meet. This splendid collaboration by an award-winning team captures the beauty and harshness of the frontier, a boundless arena for the struggle between freedom and survival. Based on accounts of Bob Lemmons, a formerly enslaved person, Black Cowboy, Wild Horses has been rewritten as a picture book by Julius Lester from his story "The Man Who Was a Horse" in Long Journey Home, first published by Dial in 1972.

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521312233
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West African Poetry written by Robert Fraser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-09-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.