Download or read book British West Africa Classic Reprint written by W. J. Yerby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British West Africa Imports of enamelware declined once more. In 1913, including freight and packing, imports were valued at of which about came from the United Kingdom, and only $300 worth from the United States. The enamelware supplied by the Central Powers before the war was in great demand. The decrease 'as caused by a -burlage of supplies from other sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Agricultural and Forest Products of British West Africa Classic Reprint written by Gerald C. Dudgeon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Agricultural and Forest Products of British West Africa Since the first edition of this book appeared, British West Africa has experienced a serious set-back in its development through the occurrence of the Great European War. From that war, however, many lessons will have been learnt, which will, it is hoped, make the course of progress in the future more sure and perhaps more rapid. The cultivation of cotton has now been shown to be successful and profitable in Nigeria. In the Northern Provinces great progress has been made in perfecting a cotton originally grown from American Upland seed, whilst the Southern Provinces have produced in creasing quantities of an improved native cotton of the type of Middling American. The future of cotton production in Nigeria is now assured, and its further development chiefly depends on effective action being taken on commercial lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Rise of British West Africa written by Claude George and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rise of British West Africa: Comprising the Early History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Lagos, Gold Coast, Etc. Etc A voyage of three days from the Chariot of the Gods brought them to another bay with an island. Here a new phenomenon greeted their eyes. The inhabitants, human-like in form, were covered from head to foot with Shaggy hair - the ourang outang - to which they gave the name Gorilla, a word of African origin. Three females of these monsters were chased and caught, and their Skins carried to Carthage as presents to Hanno. Various have been the theories that cluster about this voyage, both as regards the phenomena that attended it and its terminus. Most of the phenomena have, however, been found by modern travellers to correspond with Hanno's description, although there is still a divergence of opinion as regards the terminus, some holding it to have been Morocco, others the mouth of the Gambia Major Rennell believes that Hanno passed Sierra Leone, and that the Bay of Gorilla was the Sherbro Island, which would harmonise exactly with the description of coast-line passed on that memorable voyage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol 3 written by C. P. Lucas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. 3: West Africa A great part of the historical matter comprised in this book has been compiled by Mr. R. L. Antrobus of the Colonial Ofice, who has also revised the pages relating to St. Helena, of which island he was acting Governor in 1889-90. My warm acknowledgements are due to him, as also to Sir A. W. L. Hemming, of the Colonial Ofice, and Sir G. T. Carter, Governor of Lagos, who have been good enough to look through the pages relating to West 2 Africa. I must also acknowledge the kind assistance given to me by, among many others, Sir W. Brand t'ord Grifiith, Governor of the Gold Coast Sir F. F leming. Governor of Sierra Leone and Mr. R. B. Llewelyn, Administrator of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Nyitso a Novel of West Africa Classic Reprint written by M. F. C. Roebuck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nyitso a Novel of West Africa It was mid-morning, a bright, cloudless morning, suffused with heat, but a pleasant heat that menaced but never consumed. A pallidly splendid sun moved majestically to the zenith of a pale blue, rain-washed sky, poised above a drenched green earth. Elsewhere, the time of the year was the close of the calendar half-year. Here it was the close of the third season, the third of the five seasons. The rains were drawing to a close. Ahead, on the eastern horizon, lay an opaque haze. It contained a threat which the late afternoon sun might bring to fulfilment, when the wide plains would crouch beneath the sudden onslaught of the rain. But now the plains were at peace and unafraid, glorious, green, sweeping plains, the short grass thick and vigorous. Noisy little watercourses chattered their way in brimming, important threads, forgetful that in the dry season they would shrink and dwindle into nothingness. Here and there were clusters of thorn bushes and twisted euphorbias, dwarfed beside the tall stateliness of borassus palms, foliage spread out luxuriantly against the background of pale sky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari and Other Tales of South West Africa Classic Reprint written by Fred C. Cornell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari and Other Tales of South-West Africa Most of these stories were written on the veldt at odd times, in out-of the-way prospecting camps, in'the wilds of the Kalahari Desert, or of that equally little-known borderland between Klein Namaqualand, and Gordonia, Cape Colony, and what was at that time known as German South West Africa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The English in Africa Classic Reprint written by David Mills and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English in Africa Accept, and the boundary line is finally settled between the French Soudan and the British Niger country, as extending a long way east of the line drawn due south from Say, and which France, a little earlier, proposed to accept. So, also, what is called French Ubangi, which lies east of the Cameroons country, has been extended eastward to the western water shed of the Nile, and northward so as to embrace the Sultanate of Wadai, that lies eastward of Lake Tchad, and northward to the Turkish Vilayet of Tripoli. One-third of the continent of Africa is Ito-day under the dominion of France. But while the territories of France, in Africa, are very extensive, they are not commercially as advantageous as those which have fallen to the lot of England, and which have been, for the most part, brought under English jurisdiction, after English explorers and merchant-traders had acquired important interests in the country. The British possessions in Africa include Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Lagos, the Niger Coast Protectorate and the great territory to the north, which, until recently, was under the {royal Niger Company, but is now under the direct authority of the Crown. The other British possessions are Cape Colony, Natal, Zululand, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, the Protectorate of Bechuanaland, British South Africa, British Central Africa, Nyasaland, the Protectorate of British East Africa, Somali land, the Soudan and Egypt. And to these, no doubt, will be added, as a result of the war now in progress, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. In the present work, I have dealt with the English in Egypt, in the Soudan, in the Protectorate of British East Africa, in the Niger coun try, and in South Africa. In the Niger country, in Egypt, and in Soudan, England has been brought diplomatically in conflict with France. In East Africa, and in south-west Africa, in diplomatic conflict with Germany; in Central Africa, into diplomatic conflict with Portugal and in South Eastern Africa, into hostilities with the two Boer Republics. Portugal claimed to hold possession of territory extending. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Natives of British Central Africa Classic Reprint written by A. Werner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Natives of British Central Africa West of the territory thus defined, and between the Zambezi and the upper waters of the Congo, lies a vast region known officially as North-east Rhodesia, and reaching up to the south end of Lake Tanganika. We Shall have Something to say about the tribes living in this part of the country; some of them, indeed, are identical with those in the Protectorate proper but it is with the latter that we shall chiefly have to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book British Nigeria written by A. F. Mockler-Ferryman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Nigeria: A Geographical and Historical Description of the British Possessions Adjacent to the Niger River, West Africa West Africa differs in no particular degree from the rest of Tropical Africa, and Nigerian topography is typical of West Africa. Here we find the low-lying belt of coast line, the succession of plateaux, the higher mountains, the wide and long waterways, and a scarcity of harbours. Commencing with what is termed the Niger Delta we have a land of swamps and impenetrable forests, inter sected by a vast network of streams and creeks, and inhabited by numerous pagan tribes, addicted to every Species of vile custom, including even cannibalism and human sacrifice. This was the region visited by the earlier Niger expeditions from the south, and here neither missionary labours nor trade have, so far, done much to wards the civilisation of the native. The principal tribes of the Delta districts are the Idzo (or Ejo) nearest the sea; the Ibo, further inland; and the Igara, extend ing almost as far north as the niger-benue confluence; to their sub-divisions, as well as to their customs and peculiarities, we shall refer later. Above this pagan land, i.e. At the confluence, there is a marked change, not only in the type of the people, but also in the nature of the country. Mohammedan influence commences to Show itself; and the low swampy wastes are superseded by rocky hills and far-extending grassy plains, well-studded with magnificent trees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book South West Africa During the German Occupation 1884 1914 Classic Reprint written by Albert Frederick Calvert and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from South-West Africa During the German Occupation, 1884-1914 British forces, the German South Sea Islands are being acquired by the Australian Navy, Togoland has been occupied by anglo-french troops, and the allied arms are co-operating in the German Cameroons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book With the West African Frontier Force in Southern Nigeria Classic Reprint written by Lord Esme Gordon Lennox and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the West African Frontier Force, in Southern Nigeria I left England from Liverpool, on May 9th, in one of Messrs. Elder, Dempster & Co.'s mail boats, the "Olenda," which was to take me to the West Coast of Africa. It was typical English weather when we left - cold and wet, and it was not until five days later that we got into anything approaching warmth and sunshine. During those five cold days I realized that the Elder, Dempster boats were noted for many things, their size is small, their accommodation limited, the food is horrible, and the speed of these mail boats would always ensure an excellent race with an ordinary snail. Our first port of call was Sierra Leone which we reached on May 21st, disembarking a few passengers and taking on board a great number of natives for destinations further down the coast. We did not stay many hours there, and left in the afternoon, and proceeded down the coast calling at many places on the way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa 1900s 1960s written by Stephanie Newell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century, which adds an African perspective to transatlantic Black studies, and shows how African newsprint creativity has shaped readers' ways of imagining subjectivity and society under colonialism. From their inception in the 1880s, African-owned newspapers in 'British West Africa' carried an abundance of creative writing by local authors, largely in English. Yet to date this rich and vast array of work has largely been ignored in critical discussion of African literature and cultural history. This book, for the first time, explores this under-studied archive of ephemeral writing - from serialised fiction to poetry and short stories, philosophical essays, articles on local history, travelogues and reviews, and letters - and argues for its inclusion in literary genres and anglophone world literatures. Combining in-depth case studies of creative writing in the Ghana and Nigeria press with a major reappraisal of the Nigerian pamphlets known as 'Onitsha market literature', and focusing on non-elite authors, the author examines hitherto neglected genres, styles, languages, and, crucially, readerships. She shows how local print cultures permeated African literary production, charting changes in literary tastes and transformations to genres and styles, as they absorbed elements of globally circulating English texts into formats for local consumption. Offering fresh trajectories for thinking about local and transnational African literary networks while remaining attuned to local textual cultures in contexts of colonial power relations, anticolonial nationalism, the Cold War and global circuits of cultural exchange, this important book reveals new insights into ephemeral literature as significant sites of literary production, and contributes to filling a gap in scholarship on colonial West Africa.
Download or read book A History of South Africa Classic Reprint written by Dorothea Fairbridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of South Africa German south-west Africa is to-day the South Western Protectorate, brought under the British flag by South African troops led by General Botha. In German East Africa General Smuts has achieved great success at the head of troops drawn from England, India, and South Africa. Side by side the men of South Africa have fought and died, and not one of them has paused to say to his neighbour, 'are you English or Dutch?' for all alike have fought for the honour of the land in which they have a common heritage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The West African Pocket Book written by Great Britain Colonial Office and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The West African Pocket Book: A Guide for Newly-Appointed Government Officers The British possessions in West Africa are the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast (including Ashanti and the Northern Territories), Lagos, Southern Nigeria, and Northern Nigeria. Lagos and Southern Nigeria are in course of amalgamation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Fistful of Shells written by Toby Green and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.
Download or read book In the Grip of the Nyika written by J. H. Patterson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In the Grip of the Nyika: Further Adventures in British East Africa The exploits of the man-eaters of Tsavo aroused so much interest that I have devoted the open ing chapter to an account of one or two of their many unrecorded and unwelcome appearances in our midst at the time of the building of the Uganda Railway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol 4 written by Charles Lucas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. 4: South Africa, New Edition, Part I; History to 1895 So much history has been made of late years in Africa, and so much has been added to geographical knowledge, that it has been found necessary wholly to recast the African volumes of the series. A new and enlarged edition of West Africa, revised by Mr. A. B. Keith, is now in the press. South Africa is being dealt with in three separate parts. The first part, now in the press, is a reprint, with corrections and new maps, of the history of South Africa down to the year 1895, omitting the last few pages of the old edition. The second part, in course of preparation by the Editor, will carry on the history of South Africa to the present day. The third part will deal with the geography and statistics, etc., of South Africa, including the two Rhodesias, the reviser being Mr. A. B. Keith. A wholly new volume (volume VII) will in due course be devoted to Central and East Africa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
