The Small Brave City-State: A History of Nembe-Brass in the Niger Delta

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Austin J. Shelton ◽  
Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
History Of ◽  
City State

Corrections

1966 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-168
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Local History ◽  
African History ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
National Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
City State ◽  
The University

Professor Philip D. Curtin of the University of Wisconsin has written to correct certain points made by Dr John E. Flint in his review of The Small Brave City State: A History of Nembe-Brass in the Niger Delta, by Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa (Journal, VI, 2(1965), 248). He points out that Mr Alagoa's book was a preliminary study in local history which was written in Nigeria while Mr Alagoa was in the service of the National Archives there. Since then, Dr Alagoa has completed a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Wisconsin, but it is not yet published. Dr Flint also accepts Professor Curtin's correction of his observation about ‘the difficulty of pursuing research in such a topic [of African history] from a base in the U.S.A.’ This would not, in any case, apply to the University of Wisconsin, since Wisconsin normally requires Ph.D. candidates in African history to conduct their research in Africa and in appropriate European archives.Dr Robert Rotberg of Harvard and Herr Hans-Jürgen Greschat of the Philipps-Universität, Marburg, have pointed out an inaccurate compression of events in my article on ‘Witnesses and Watchtower in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland’. As some of your readers may come to accept my chronology of the imprisonment of Elliott Kenani Kamwana Chirwa (p. 92, n.4), perhaps I should set matters straight. I said that he was arrested, deported to Mauritius in June 1909, released by March 1914 and re-deported around December 1916. In fact, Kamwana was given the choice of restriction to Nyasaland's Southern Province or removal to South Africa in 1909. He seems to have returned in 1910, was sent back to South Africa, which this time refused him entry, and next went to Chinde in Mozambique, where he stayed until the outbreak of war, when the Portuguese repatriated him. The British once more detained him in the Mlanje District and after the Chilembwe revolt sent Kamwana and others back to Mauritius for about a year and then to the Seychelles until 1937. These additional details concerning his peregrinations are interesting in themselves and I thank my two correspondents for supplying them.

scholarly journals The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-636
Author(s):  
Noam Maggor
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
British Empire ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Atlantic Trade ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
American Nation

Mark Peterson's The City-State of Boston is a formidable work of history—prodigiously researched, lucidly written, immense in scope, and yet scrupulously detailed. A meticulous history of New England over more than two centuries, the book argues that Boston and its hinterland emerged as a city-state, a “self-governing republic” that was committed first and foremost to its own regional autonomy (p. 6). Rather than as a British colonial outpost or the birthplace of the American Revolution—the site of a nationalist struggle for independence—the book recovers Boston's long-lost tradition as a “polity in its own right,” a fervently independent hub of Atlantic trade whose true identity placed it in tension with the overtures of both the British Empire and, later, the American nation-state (p. 631).

Indigenous Written Sources for the History of Bonny

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 185-196
Author(s):  
Susan M. Hargreaves
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Court Records ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
History Of ◽  
Similar Character ◽  
Written Sources

It is well known that indigenous contemporary written documentation exists for the precolonial and early colonial history of some of the coastal societies of South-Eastern Nigeria. The best known example is Old Calabar, for which there exists most notably the diary of Antera Duke, covering the years 1785-88, a document brought from Old Calabar to Britain already during the nineteenth century. More recently John Latham has discovered additional material of a similar character still preserved locally in Old Calabar, principally the Black Davis House Book (containing material dating from the 1830s onwards), the papers of Coco Bassey (including diaries covering the years 1878-89), and the papers of E. O. Offiong (comprising trade ledgers, court records, and letter books relating to the period 1885-1907). In the Niger Delta S. J. S. Cookey, for his biography of King Jaja of Opobo, was able to use contemporary documents in Jaja's own papers, including correspondence from the late 1860s onwards. In the case of the neighboring community of Bonny (from which Jaja seceded to found Opobo after a civil war in 1869), while earlier historians have alluded to the existence of indigenous written documentation, they have done so only in very general terms and without any indication of the quantity or nature of this material.

Land of Sikyon: Archaeology and History of a Greek City-State by Yannis A. Lolos

Phoenix ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 385-387
Author(s):  
Konstantin Boshnakov
Keyword(s):  
Greek City ◽  
History Of ◽  
City State

scholarly journals Environment pollution: The rise of militarism and terrorism in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Christian Madubuko
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Oil Exploration ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
The People ◽  
Oil Pipelines ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Receive

Oil was discovered in large quantities in Nigeria in 1956 and exploration began in the same year. Before oil, agriculture and fishing had assured the Niger Delta people of a bright future. Since 1956, oil has been extracted from the Niger Delta with destructive consequences on the environment, bringing about environmental degradation and destruction of the people’s primary means of livelihood. Land and water were badly polluted, and the health of the people affected because of leaks from oil pipelines, gas flaring and acid rains. Several petitions and non-violent protests by Delta communities, women and youth against environmental destruction failed to receive attention. Rather, opposition to peaceful protests earned the people military invasions of their communities, clampdowns and jailings. The rise of militarism and terrorism in the Niger Delta was the result of the Federal Government and Oil Companies’ clampdown on non-violent protests for environmental justice in the Niger Delta. This paper discusses the history of oil exploration in the Niger Delta, oil laws, effects of oil exploration in the region, and the rise of militants and terrorists in the area. The paper uses the term, ‘environmental Justice’ to denote unfair treatment and destruction of the Delta environment resulting from oil exploration, non implementation and enforcement of environmental laws and regulations, and abuse of human rights.The paper suggests solutions for peace in the Niger Delta.

Antinoopolis: A Hadrianic Foundation in Egypt

1940 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. I. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
Civic Institutions

The city state was the most characteristic expression of the Hellenic way of life; and it is appropriate that the most Philhellenic of Roman emperors should have been distinguished as a founder of cities and an encourager of civic institutions. We are ill informed about the constitution and history of most of his foundations, but concerning one, which was in Egypt, a country whose soil preserves so perfectly the antiquities which it covers, we have a considerable amount of evidence. Antinoopolis is thus of interest not only to the historian of Roman and Byzantine Egypt, but also for the light it may throw on Hadrian's aims and ideals as a founder of cities.

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