The So Pots Of Central Africa

Author : Graham Connah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407356082
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The So Pots of Central Africa written by Graham Connah and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an original study of very large pots in parts of Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Found in excavations and surface fieldwork, they have been attributed to the So, a group of pre-Islamic inhabitants of the area before the sixteenth century AD, who have become mythologised as giants. Originally for burial, in some cases the pots have been dug up by villagers and reused: for brewing beer or as dye pits for indigo cloth. The book focuses on a group of these pots that survived until the late twentieth century in villages in a small part of Borno, north-eastern Nigeria.

Author : Graham Connah
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The So Pots of Central Africa written by Graham Connah and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2019 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Archaeology, Volume 91 This book is an original study of very large pots in parts of Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria. Found in excavations and surface fieldwork, they have been attributed to the So, a group of pre-Islamic inhabitants of the area before the sixteenth century AD, who have become mythologised as giants. Originally for burial, in some cases the pots have been dug up by villagers and reused: for brewing beer or as dye pits for indigo cloth. The book focuses on a group of these pots that survived until the late twentieth century in villages in a small part of Borno, north-eastern Nigeria. With the passage of time and terrorist activities in the region, their fate is now unknown and the photographs from 1963 to 1993 reproduced in this book have become a major archive of an unusual pottery group.

Author : John Roscoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Central Africa written by John Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Stuart-Mogg
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9996080218
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mlozi of Central Africa written by David Stuart-Mogg and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, historians and writers on Africa have almost invariably associated the name Mlozi with all the cruellest excesses of the central and east African slave trade during the nineteenth century. That Mlozi bin Kazbadema was a significant slaver who conducted his trade according to all the brutal conventions of his period is beyond dispute. His subsequent botched hanging at the end of a British-sponsored rope, following a drum-head trial of questionable legality, has been generally regarded as well-deserved and a fitting, if muscular, exemplar of Pax Britannica in action. In The End of the Slaver, a title taken from recollections of Mlozi's hanging by the medical missionary Dr. Kerr Cross, author David Stuart-Mogg examines Mlozi's life and milieu and carefully weighs the often conflicting evidence apparent between official military and government reports and the largely unpublished private letters and diaries written at the time by those who participated in Mlozi's downfall and elimination. Stuart-Mogg's carefully evaluated findings call into serious question the altruism and philanthropy that the ultimate, and inevitable, victors of the struggle accorded their actions and their undoubtedly laudable ultimate objective - the eradication of slavery in British Central Africa. Referring to this book as 'an unusually stimulating study, Professor Shepperson recommends that The End of the Slaver deserves to be widely-read, not only by those whose primary interest is in the history of Malawi but also by students of slavery and the anti-slavery movements in the nineteenth century - and, indeed by all who are concerned with man's inhumanity to man.

Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lake Regions of Central Africa written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004256245
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Objects of Life in Central Africa written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption as a vantage point, the contributions deviate from and add to previous works which have mainly analysed issues of production from an economic and political perspective. The chapters are broad-ranging in temporal and geographical focus, including contributions on Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Topics range from the social history of firearms to the perception of the railway and include contributions on sewing machines, traders and advertising. By looking at the socio-economic, political and cultural meaning and impact of goods the history of Central Africa is reassessed.

Author : Enid Schildkrout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521586788
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scramble for Art in Central Africa written by Enid Schildkrout and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western attitudes to Africa have been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the arts and artefacts that were brought back by the early collectors, exhibited in museums, and celebrated by scholars and artists in the metropolitan centres. The contributors to this volume trace the life history of artefacts that were brought to Europe and America from Congo towards the end of the nineteenth century, and became the subjects of museum displays. They also present fascinating case studies of the pioneering collectors, including such major figures as Frobenius and Torday. They discuss the complex and sensitive issues involved in the business of 'collecting', and show how the collections and exhibitions influenced academic debates about the categories of art and artefact, and the notion of authenticity, and challenged conventional aesthetic values, as modern Western artists began to draw on African models.

Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9925070732
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lake Regions of Central Africa written by Bayard Taylor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674771918
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa written by Robert I. Rotberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Professor Rotberg has given students of African history a detailed and thoroughly documented study of the creation of Malawi and Zambia and much information on the formation and collapse of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. No other scholar has written so full and reliable an account of this recent and complex history. Rotberg had access to hitherto unused official archives and to private correspondence, sources that he supplemented by interviews with many of the European and African participants in the events of the last decades of a century of history. No one can read this story without being impressed by the dizzy speed of change in Africa.'-American Historical Review

Author : O. Oyewumi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230116272
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Epistemologies in Africa written by O. Oyewumi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.