Daniel F. Mccall and Norman R. Bennett, editors. <italic>Aspects of West African Islam</italic>. (Boston University Papers on Africa, volume 5.) [Boston:] African Studies Center, Boston University. 1971. Pp. xiv, 234. $5.00

Imagine a conference of West African heads of state or government held in 1870 to discuss what West Africa would be like in the year 1900. The list of participants at such a conference might well have included Lat Dior, the darnel of Cayor (Senegal), Samouri Toure (Guinea), his enemy Tie-ba of Sikasso, the President of Liberia, Obas of Benin and Lagos, King Gezo, King Gelele, King Tofa (Porto Novo), King Ja-ja (Opobo), Chief Na-na (Itshekiri), Sultan Attahiru of Sokoto, and Asantehene Prempeh.

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Mary Kingsley 1896–1899

Something of Themselves ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197501443.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 109-132

Author(s):

Sarah LeFanu

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

South African ◽

Sierra Leone ◽

Social Practices ◽

West African ◽

African Studies ◽

Mary Kingsley ◽

South African War ◽

The People ◽

British Colonial

This chapter explores how Mary Kingsley believed the British merchants and traders in West Africa were better placed than missionaries or colonial officials to understand West African beliefs, laws and social practices; she supported the liquor trade. It looks at her two major books, Travels in West Africa and West African Studies, analyzing Kingsley’s literary style and the challenges her observations and arguments posed to the British colonial authorities and the Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain. In this chapter we see the emergence of Kingsley as a political campaigner for the rights of Africans, as she campaigns against the Hut Tax that was imposed on the people of Sierra Leone in 1898. The South African War offered her an excuse to leave England and return to the Africa she loved.

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Self-Assertion and Brokerage: Early Cultural Nationalism in West Africa, eds. P.F. de Moraes Farias and Karin Barber. [Birmingham University African Studies Series; 2]. (Birmingham: Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, 1990). 242 pages.

Matatu ◽

10.1163/18757421-90000024 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 215-225

Author(s):

Craig W. McLuckie

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Cultural Nationalism ◽

West African ◽

African Studies

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Kay Williamson: A grammar of the Kolokuma dialect of Ịjọ. (West African Language Monograph Series, 2.) vii, 127 pp. Cambridge: University Press in association with the West African Languages Survey and the Institute of African Studies, Ibadan, 1965. 18s.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0041977x0005998x ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 462-462

Author(s):

E. C. Rowlands

Keyword(s):

West African ◽

African Studies ◽

African Language ◽

The West ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Monograph Series ◽

African Languages

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Daniel F. Mccall and Norman R. Bennett, editors. Aspects of West African Islam. (Boston University Papers on Africa, volume 5.) [Boston:] African Studies Center, Boston University. 1971. Pp. xiv, 234. $5.00

Aspects of West African Islam. Ed. by Daniel F. McCall and Norman R. Bennett, Boston University Papers on Africa, vol. v. Boston University African Studies Center, 1971. Pp. xiv + 234. maps. $5.

West African States: Failure and Promise, A Study in Comparative Politics, edited by John DunnWest African States: Failure and Promise, A Study in Comparative Politics, edited by John Dunn. African Studies 23. Cambridge University Press. London and New York, 1978. 252 pp.

Mahir Şaul and Patrick Royer. West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anti-Colonial War. (Western African Studies.) Athens: Ohio University Press and Oxford: James Currey. 2001. Pp. xii, 404. Cloth $65.00, paper $26.95

The Centre of West African Studies of the University of Birmingham

The transformation of land tenure in Buganda since 1896. By H. W. West. (African social research documents, volume 2; obtainable from the African studies centre, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.) No date. Pp. 102. £1.25.

The Journal of West African Languages. Vol. 1, No. 1. 55 pp. Cambridge: University Press in association with the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 1964. 18s. per part, 30s. per annum.

African Studies and the Study of the Future

Mary Kingsley 1896–1899

Self-Assertion and Brokerage: Early Cultural Nationalism in West Africa, eds. P.F. de Moraes Farias and Karin Barber. [Birmingham University African Studies Series; 2]. (Birmingham: Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, 1990). 242 pages.

Kay Williamson: A grammar of the Kolokuma dialect of Ịjọ. (West African Language Monograph Series, 2.) vii, 127 pp. Cambridge: University Press in association with the West African Languages Survey and the Institute of African Studies, Ibadan, 1965. 18s.

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