Download or read book With the Nigerians in German East Africa Classic Reprint written by Walter Douglas Downes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the Nigerians in German East Africa It is my hope that, when the reader has finished this book, he will be as convinced as the writer that these soldiers from the borders of the sun-scorched Sahara, from the banks of the Niger and the Benue, from Yoruba land and Calabar, are second to none among the dark skinned sons of the Empire as fighting men. It will probably interest my readers if I set down for their information a short sketch of the history and doings of this gallant regiment, dating back as it does to the early days of the British Overseas Empire. 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 Nigerians in German East Africa written by Capt. W. D.. Downes and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Voice of German East Africa written by Hans Poeschel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Voice of German East Africa: The English in the Judgment of the Natives Dr. Hans Poeschel is well qualified to portray the thoughts and feelings of our black charges, whom he grew to know so well during his years of service in German East Africa. He shows clearly how, our enemy has attempted by means of falsehoods' to delude the world into the belief that the natives of our colonies had become alienated from us and preferred English rule. 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 Nigerians in German East Africa written by Downes W D 1884- and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Voice of German East Africa The English in the Judgment of the Natives written by Hans Poeschel and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Voice of German East Africa is a unique historical document, written by a German colonial official, Hans Poeschel, in 1912. It provides an illuminating perspective on the attitudes and opinions of African people towards European imperialists at the dawn of the 20th century, and sheds light on the complex dynamics of colonialism and race relations. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and general readers interested in the history of Africa and European colonialism. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute Vol 39 written by J. S. O'Halloran and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 39: Part V; April, 1908 I have so far said little about the possibilities of the lake and coast regions or of the part which they seem destined to play. This is a side of our East African Empire which has not hitherto re ceived much attention. I believe local politics are now divided into a Highland and a Lowland faction, the assumption being that the interests of the two sections are more or less antagonistic but the Lowland faction is a very new one, and I understand is now gaining recruits, even from the ranks of the Highlanders who apparently are not averse to a form of insurance. The previoils neglect of the coast is the more remarkable when we remember the success of Southern Nigeria, French West Africa, and German East Africa. The movement in favour of obtaining a supply of raw material for our industries within the empire - a supply which will not be subject to the fluctuations and vicissitudes of the foreign markets - has now, however, included East Africa within its sphere, and a small beginning has been made which is full of promise. The Uganda Railway, once regarded as a white elephant, is now becoming an important asset in developing this tropical pro duce supply, and the lake and coast regions, which are extremely fertile and can grow the best quality of Egyptian cotton, besides rubber, fibres, valuable oils, and other raw materials, at once spring into a place in our Imperial economy. 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 At War in Distant Waters written by Phillip Pattee and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Great and Urgent Imperial Service investigates the reasons behind Great Britain’s combined military and naval offensive expeditions of Europe during the Great War. These campaigns have been branded by various historians as unnecessary sideshows to the conflict waged on the European continent. Pattee argues that the various campaigns were necessary adjuncts to the war in Europe, and fulfilled an important strategic purpose by protecting British trade where it was most vulnerable. Since international trade was essential for maintaining the island nation’s way of life, Great Britain required freedom of the seas in order to maintain its global trade. While the German High Seas Fleet constituted a serious threat that placed the British coast at grave risk, forcing the Royal Navy to concentrate in home waters, the importance of the island empire’s global trade made it a valuable and vulnerable target to Germany’s various commerce raiders—as Admiral Tirpitz’s risk theory had anticipated.
Download or read book In German Gaols written by Ernest Frederick Spanton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In German Gaols: A Narrative of Two Years Captivity in German East Africa The Secretary of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa has asked me to compose a Prefatory Note to the experiences and arguments that follow. I imagine he has done so remembering how closely I have been connected as friend and neighbour with the missionaries of the Mission founded in 1857 by Dr. Livingstone. My relations with the U.M.C.A. in East Africa began early in 1884, when I was preparing in Zanzibar for my expedition to Kilimanjaro. I had heard much of this Mission from Stanley on the Congo in the two previous years. In order that I might acquire enough knowledge of Swahili to get on with my Zanzibari porters on the Congo, Stanley had lent me Bishop Steere's handbooks. I arrived, therefore, at Zanzibar in the spring of 1884 able to speak Swahili to some extent, and, further, to appreciate the immense additions to our knowledge of the Bantu languages already contributed by Bishop Steere (who died in 1882) and other members of the U.M.C.A. After a long stay in Nigeria and the Cameroons, I found myself back in East Africa in 1889, and once more in touch with the Universities' Mission. 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 United States Catalog Books in Print January 1 1912 written by Marion Effie Potter and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Reprints written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africans written by John Iliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the South African general election of 1994, John Iliffe refocuses African history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure survival and maximise numbers. These institutions enabled them to survive the slave trade and colonial invasion, but in the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This demographic growth has lain behind the collapse of colonial rule, the disintegration of Apartheid, and the instability of contemporary nations. The history of the continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors.
Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lagos Noir written by Jude Dibia and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A stellar cast of award-winning Nigerian authors . . . a must-read for crime lovers looking for something different.”—Brittle Paper In Akashic Books’s acclaimed series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria’s best-known authors. In Lagos Noir, the stories are set in “a city of more than 21 million and an amazing amalgam of wealth, poverty, corruption, humor, bravery, and tragedy. Abani and a dozen other contributors tell stories that are both unique to Lagos and universal in their humanity . . . This entry stands as one of the strongest recent additions to Akashic’s popular noir series” (Publishers Weekly, starred review, pick of the week). The anthology includes stories by Chris Abani, Nnedi Okorafor, E.C. Osondu, Jude Dibia, Chika Unigwe, A. Igoni Barrett, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Adebola Rayo, Onyinye Ihezukwu, Uche Okonkwo, Wale Lawal, ’Pemi Aguda, and Leye Adenle. “The beauty of this book, which contains 13 stories from Nigerian writers, is that it serves as a travelogue, too.”—Bloomberg, “The Darkest Summer Reading List for Those Bright, Beachy Days” “With writers like Igoni Barrett, Leye Adenle, and E.C. Osondu contributing, Lagos Noir offers wildly different perspectives on both the city itself and the state of noir fiction. This book is almost like a world in itself, one that you’ll want to dive back into and get lost in again and again.”—CrimeReads, “One of the 10 Best Crime Anthologies of 2018”
Download or read book German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence written by Susanne Kuss and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some historians have traced a line from Germany’s atrocities in its colonial wars to those committed by the Nazis during WWII. Susanne Kuss dismantles these claims, rejecting the notion that a distinctive military ethos or policy of genocide guided Germany’s conduct of operations in Africa and China, despite acts of unquestionable brutality.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.
Download or read book Constitucional Developments in Nigeria written by Kalu Ezera and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought written by Paul Barry Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing almost 200 entries from 'accountability' to the 'Westminster model' the Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought explores all the ideas that matter to democracy past, present and future. It is destined to become the first port-of-call for all students, teachers and researchers of political science interested in democratic ideas, democratic practice, and the quality of democratic governance. The Encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of all the key concepts of democratic thought written by a stellar team of distinguished international contributors. The Encyclopedia draws on every tradition of democratic thought, as well as developing new thinking, in order to provide full coverage of the key democratic concepts and engage with their practical implications for the conduct of democratic politics in the world today. In this way, it brings every kind of democratic thinking to bear on the challenges facing contemporary democracies and on the possibilities of the democratic future. The Encyclopedia is global in scope and responds in detail to the democratic revolution of recent decades. Referring both to the established democratic states of Western Europe, North America and Australasia, and to the recent democracies of Latin America, Eastern and Central Europe, Africa and Asia, classical democratic concerns are related to new democracies, and to important changes in the older democracies. Supplemented by full bibliographical information, extensive cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading, the Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought is a unique work of reference combining the expertise of many of the world's leading political scientists, political sociologists and political philosophers. It will be welcomed as an essential resource for both teaching and for independent study, and as a solid starting point both for further research and wider exploration.
