History of Climate and Forests in Tropical Africa During the Last 8 Million Years

1991 ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Hamilton ◽  
D. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Africa ◽  
History Of

Islam and Colonial Rule in Lagos

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-80
Author(s):  
Olakunle A. Lawal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Islam And Politics ◽  
British Rule ◽  
History Of ◽  
Process Of Urbanization

IntroductionThis essay provides an explanation of the dynamics of the interactionbetween Islam and politics by placing emphasis on the role played byMuslims in the collision of traditionalism and British rule as colonialismtook root in Lagos. The focus is on the development of a political schismwithin the nascent Muslim community of metropolitan Lagos at the startof the twentieth century up until the end of the 1940s. It highlights therole of Islam in an emerging urban settlement experiencing rapid transformationfrom a purely rural and traditional center into a colonial urbancenter. The essay is located within the broader issues of urban change andtransition in twentieth-century tropical Africa. Three major developments(viz: the central mosque crisis, the Eleko affair, and the Oluwa land case)are used as the vehicles through which the objectives of the essay areachieved.The introduction of Islam into Lagos has been studied by T. G. O.Gbadamosi as part of the history of Islam in southwestern Nigeria. Thisepic study does not pay specific attention to Lagos, devoted as it is to thegrowth of Islam in a far-flung territory like the whole of modem southwesternNigeria. His contribution to a collection of essays on the historyof Lagos curiously leaves out Islam’s phenomenal impact on Lagosianpolitics during the first half of the twentieth century. In an attempt to fillthis gap, Hakeem Danmole’s essay also stops short of appreciating the fundamentallink between the process of urbanization, symbolized in this caseby colonial rule, and the vanguard role played by Muslims in the inevitableclash of tradition and colonial rule in Lagos between 1900 and 1950.

scholarly journals Some observations on the bionomics of Tabanus par, Walker, and Tabanus tæniola, Pal. de Beauv

1910 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold H. King
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
African Species ◽  
Blood Sucking ◽  
History Of

Notwithstanding the work which has been conducted during the last few years on blood-sucking flies, and particularly on those which occur in Tropical Africa, owing to their connection, whether proved or merely suspected, with the spread of various diseases of man and animals, nothing has hitherto been published on the life-history of any African species of the large family Tabanidæ, except in the case of Tabanus biguttatus, Wied.* It is hoped, therefore, that the following notes on the bionomics of two of the more common Tabanids, though incomplete, may nevertheless be of some interest.

The Constitutional Development of South Africa

1918 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 218-235
Author(s):  
Lieut-Colonel L. S. Amery
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sandy Desert ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Constitutional Development ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Unity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Little Italy ◽  
Eastern Edge ◽  
The Universe

The history of South Africa is the story of the disintegration and eventual reconstruction of a country essentially one in all the main features that make for political unity. It is, as Carlyle said of the United Kingdom, and with even more truth, ' one on the ground plan of the Universe,' a compact block of temperate territory jutting out from tropical Africa into the Southern Ocean. There is a coast fringe, nowhere of any size except in the East, where it belongs to Portugal and falls outside the scope of our story, and immediately round the Cape where it forms a little Italy, a region of orchards and vineyards, the seclusion of which from the life of the veld beyond may have accounted for many mistakes in the days when South Africa was governed from Cape Town. For the rest South Africa is a vast terraced plateau, greener and better watered towards its eastern edge, shading off towards sandy desert on the West, but singularly uniform in all its characteristics, and broken up by no serious natural barriers.

An Economic History of Tropical Africa: Vol. 2, The Colonial Period

1978 ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Peter Kilby ◽  
Z. A. Konczacki ◽  
J. M. Konczacki
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Malnutrition in the history of tropical Africa

Civilisations ◽  
1996 ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sjoerd Rijpma
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Africa ◽  
History Of

An Experiment in Methodology in a West African Urban Community

1954 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Total Population ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
West African ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Populated Area ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
History Of ◽  
Population Numbers

One of the most highly developed and complex cultures in tropical Africa today is found among the Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria. Extending northeast from Lagos, the major coastal port of Nigeria, is a densely populated area comprised of many large communities, characteristic of the Yoruba, whose total population numbers over 3,500,000 persons. The early history of many of these communities is obscure, although it is alleged that many of the contemporary communities had their inceptions in the 17th and 18th centuries. The largest of the 15 or more communities whose populations exceed 40,000 persons is Ibadan, with an estimated 400,000 population. The estimated populations of some of the other Yoruba towns are: Iwo, 86,000; Ogbomosho, 85,000; Oyo, 79,000; Oshbogbo, 70,000; Abeokuta, 54,000; Ilesha, 50,000; and Ife, 45,000. The 1931 Nigeria census indicated that one-third of the Yoruba population lives in the nine largest Yoruba towns.

Robert I. Rotberg, A Political History of Tropical Africa.

1967 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-69
Author(s):  
Irene Diggs
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
History Of
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