Westafrika

West African popular theatre

by Collins, John, Barber, Karin, Ricard, Alain

fromDrama and performance studies

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" ... A ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature ..." 'Research in African Literatures "Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." 'Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A s…

Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world

by Sweet, James H., (James Hoke)

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Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of…

Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world

by Sweet, James H., (James Hoke)

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By tracing the steps of Domingos Alvares, a powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.

Spirit service: Vodún and Vodou in the African Atlantic world

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Introduction / Christian Vannier and Timothy R. Landry -- Vodou Genesis: Africans and the Making of a National Religion in Saint-Domingue / Terry Rey -- Universalism and Syncretism in Beninese Vodún / Douglas J. Falen -- Crossing Currents: Gorovodu and Yewevodu in Contemporary T…

Commercial transitions and abolition in West Africa 1630-1860

by Dalrymple-Smith, Angus

fromStudies in global slavery

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"Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630-1860 by Angus Dalrymple-Smith offers a fresh perspective on why the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities instead of slaves in the nineteenth cen…

African-American exploration in West Africa: four nineteenth-century diaries

by Fairhead, James, Sims, James L., Seymour, George L., Anderson, Benjamin J. K.

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"In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. While some argued that the new black republic represented disposal rather than emancipation, a few intrepid men set out to explo…

African-American exploration in West Africa: four nineteenth-century diaries

by Fairhead, James, Sims, James L., Seymour, George L., Anderson, Benjamin J. K.

0 Type: Book

"In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. While some argued that the new black republic represented disposal rather than emancipation, a few intrepid men set out to explo…

Civil War and democracy in West Africa: conflict resolution, elections and justice in Sie…

by Harris, David, (David John)

fromInternational library of African studies

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"In the aftermath of explosive civil wars in Africa during the 1990s and 2000s, the establishment of multi-party elections has often been heralded by the West as signaling the culmination of the conflict and the beginning of a period of democratic rule. However, the outcomes of …