The African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African City write by Bill Freund. This book was released on 2007-03-05. The African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
Migrants and Strangers in an African City
Migrants and Strangers in an African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrants and Strangers in an African City write by Bruce Whitehouse. This book was released on 2012-03-14. Migrants and Strangers in an African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.
The Story of an African City
The Story of an African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of an African City write by Joseph Forsyth Ingram. This book was released on 1898. The Story of an African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the rise and progress of Maritzburg.
Slavery and the Birth of an African City
Slavery and the Birth of an African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and the Birth of an African City write by Kristin Mann. This book was released on 2007-09-26. Slavery and the Birth of an African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century, the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator. Slavery and the Birth of an African City explores the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders, Kristin Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the tiny kingdom of Lagos. This magisterial work uncovers the relationship between African slavery and the growth of one of Africa's most vibrant cities.
African Town
African Town - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Town write by Charles Waters. This book was released on 2022-01-04. African Town available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse. Cover may vary. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today.
