THE RULE OF HAMMAN YAJI The Diary of Hamman Yaji: Chronicle of a West African Muslim Ruler. Edited and introduced by JAMES H. VAUGHAN and ANTHONY H. M. KIRK-GREENE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 162. No price given (ISBN 0-253-36206-7).

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-177
Author(s):  
YAKUBU MUKHTAR
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Slave Raids

The publication of Hamman Yaji's diary through the combined effort of J. H. Vaughan and A. H. M. Kirk-Greene is a rare and remarkable contribution that deserves commendation from all those interested in West African studies. An important merit of the publication is that the diary, which sheds light on various aspects of West African history, is now at the fingertips of a wider readership. The diary is a catalogue of events which Hamman Yaji (District Head of Madagali, northeastern Adamawa, 1902–27) regarded as important for the period 1912–27. Apart from numerous slave raids on the neighbouring non-Muslim communities, trade, religious observances, reciprocity, obligations and Hamman Yaji's relations with his Muslim neighbours and Europeans are recorded in detail.

Out of Africa: The Challenges, Evolution, and Opportunities of African Military History

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles G. Thomas ◽  
Roy Doron
Keyword(s):  
Military History ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
African People ◽  
Out Of Africa ◽  
Slave Raids

Since their inception, African studies have endeavored to dispel the harmful racialized stereotypes of the African people. However, these efforts have been uneven and some aspects of African history have remained immersed in colonial dehumanized tropes. The sub-discipline of African military history has been one such aspect due in part to structural issues involved in its generation. However, with these structural issues slowly being overcome by advances in the discipline, the development of African institutions, and the expansion of historical inquiry, there are now a multitude of African military historical inquiries that might be successfully pursued. In turn, these inquiries will help transform the understanding of African military practices from a racialized discussion of slave raids and massacres to a nuanced examination of a complex socio-political practice.

Institute of African Studies, Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone

1966 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Author(s):  
Michael Crowder
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
West African ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Freshmen Students ◽  
Introductory Lecture ◽  
Degree Structure

The Institute of African Studies at Fourah Bay College is an interdisciplinary research institute with teaching functions. During the next three years research plans will concentrate on two broad areas of African studies: social and economic problems, and culture and history. An equal division of activity between them is important, since there is no Institute of Social and Economic Research in the College. The Institute also provides an introductory lecture course in African studies which is required for all freshmen students under the terms of the revised degree structure of the College. The two-term lecture course deals with ‘West African History and Culture’ during the first term, and ‘Contemporary West Africa: Social and Economic Problems’ during the second.

J.D. Fage 1921–2002

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West African ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
European Continent ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

In John Fage's company one never felt subject to demands that his eminence be ritually acknowledged. Somehow he did not require this kind of reassurance and managed to be utterly free of pomp. Though he was the founder of our Birmingham Centre of West African Studies, he did not expect the rest of us to see its headship as his natural preserve. In the 1970s he unsuccessfully tried to modify the conditions of his university appointment so as to pass on the directorship to each of his CWAS colleagues in rotation, independent of rank. He was a man of elegant deportment and refined manners, cultivating what now seems an old-worldly reticence about his feelings and achievements. (At the time that oh so very British style could already induce some amusement in barbarians from, say, the European continent, South Africa, or South America. But some other styles that have become current since make one remember the old dispensation with nostalgic fondness).All he did was done effortlessly, or so his behavior seemed to suggest: running CWAS, being a family man, co-founding (1960) and co-editing (up to 1973) with Roland Oliver the Journal of African History, co-editing (also with Oliver) the Cambridge History of Africa, authoring successful and much reprinted books, supervising theses, teaching undergraduates, helping to launch and edit the UNESCO General History of Africa, serving as the first Honorary Secretary of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom, serving in the Executive Council of the International African Institute, fulfilling increasingly senior functions in the government of the University of Birmingham, and this is not a complete list.

scholarly journals Making History in Africa: David Henige and the Quest for Method in African History

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel R. Doortmont
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
West African ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
Master’S Degree

My own history with David Henige goes back to 1985, when I had just finished a master's degree in African studies at the Centre of West African Studies in Birmingham, England, and was looking for a place and a supervisor for a planned doctoral dissertation involving a historiographical study of Nigeria. One of my supervisors, Tom McCaskie, suggested getting in touch with Henige, to see if he could assist me. The reply was elaborate and positive, which I appreciated much. Circumstances for graduate students at the time being quite different from the present, and funding systems for study abroad still in their infancy, the plan came to nothing. The connection with Henige and his work was there to stay, however.This article is an effort to give a reflection on David Henige's career and his impact on the discipline of history in Africa, through his work as editor of History in Africa. The scope of the reflection is limited, as we concentrate on David's own contributions, rather than setting him and his work in a comparative framework. When David Henige started History in Africa in 1974, it was yet another scholarly journal on Africa, in an ever-growing series, counting already more than two hundred titles, as Henige pointed out himself. And indeed, in such circumstances, a new journal needs ‘to justify itself to the audience it addresses.’

Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-578
Author(s):  
John Fage
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Economic History ◽  
West African ◽  
African Studies ◽  
African History ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
The University ◽  
Assistant Lecturer ◽  
Full Operation

The Centre of West African Studies has been in full operation since October 1964. Its staff is as follows: J. D. Fage, M.A., Ph.D. (Director and Professor of African History); P. C. Lloyd, M.A., B.Sc., D.Phil. (Senior Lecturer in Sociology); D. Rimmer, B.A. (Lecturer in Economics); R. E. Bradbury, B.A., Ph.D. (Lecturer in Social Anthropology); K. W. J. Post, M.A. (Lecturer in Political Science); A. G. Hopkins, B.A., Ph.D. (Assistant Lecturer in Economic History). A number of other members of the University of Birmingham are closely associated with the work of the Centre, including D. W. J. Johnson, M.A., B.Litt. (History); R. E. Wraith, C.B.E., B.Com. (Local Government); W. B. Morgan, M.A., Ph.D., and R. P. Moss, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Geography); and R. H. F. Dalton, B.A. (Education).

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