African Exploits

Author : Roy D. MacLaren
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773566712

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African Exploits by Roy D. MacLaren Pdf

Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Stairs (1863-1892) attended the Royal Military College in Kingston before being commissioned in the British army. Wearied of peacetime soldiering, he volunteered in 1887 to participate in Sir Henry M. Stanley's final trans-African expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the last of "Chinese" Gordon's lieutenants in the Sudan. The expedition emerged almost three years later in Zanzibar, a reluctant Pasha in tow, having left a trail of havoc and suffering behind it. Stairs promptly volunteered for a second expedition in Africa to secure Katanga for King Leopold II of the Belgians as part of the controversial Congo Free State. Stairs was a cruel leader, condoning decapitation and mutilation to attain colonial ends. The expedition succeeded, but at the price of suffering, destruction, and his own life: Stairs died of malaria at the end of the expedition at the age of twenty-eight. Few diaries of the period convey better than Stairs's the nature and course of imperialist expeditions in Africa in the nineteenth century and the psychological and moral corruption caused by absolute power. Stairs's diaries of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition present a candid, personal account of the long and arduous venture, including a very unflattering assessment of Stanley, whom Stairs described as cruel, secretive, and selfish. The Katanga diaries, written as an official company account of the expedition, were intended partly to provide information useful to those intent upon exploiting the African hinterland. African Exploits is the most complete published collection of Stairs's diaries, with a new translation of the Katanga diaries, which no longer exist in the original English. Roy MacLaren's introduction and conclusion set Stairs's adventures in the colonial context of the era and analyse the psychological effects of his experiences.

Author : William G. Stairs
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0773516409

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A record of the experiences of a young Canadian caught up in European expansion into Africa in the 1880s, African Exploits provides a disturbing record of William Stairs's two African expeditions and the devastating clash of cultures that occurred during the imperial scramble for the "dark continent."

Author : William Grant Stairs,Roy MacLaren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1887-1889)
ISBN : 0853237220

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African Exploits by William Grant Stairs,Roy MacLaren Pdf

Born in Nova Scotia, William Stairs (1863-1892) was commissioned in the British Army. Weary of peacetime soldiering, he volunteered in 1887 to take part in Henry Stanley's final trans-African expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the last survivor of Chinese Gordon's lieutenants in the Sudan. The expedition emerged three years later in Zanzibar, a reluctant Pasha in tow, having left a trail of havoc and suffering behind it.

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788731201

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Pdf

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Africa
ISBN : IOWA:31858032583464

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African Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emma Mawdsley,Gerard McCann
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781906387655

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India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power by Emma Mawdsley,Gerard McCann Pdf

In one of the first analyses of contemporary IndianAfrican relations, this detailed book draws upon a collection of case studies that explore interrelated topics such as trade, investment, development aid, civil society relations, security, and geopolitics. While China's relationship to Africa has been thoroughly examined, knowledge and analysis of India's role in Africa has until now been limited. This book fills the gap and compares and contrasts India to China s role as a rising global power in the African continent. "

Author : Charles Bruce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : BSB:BSB11631007

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Stirring Adventure in African Travel by Charles Bruce Pdf

Author : WINFRIED WENTLAND
Publisher : CFAN Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781933446349

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BY LIFE OR BY DEATH by WINFRIED WENTLAND Pdf

Author : Celucien L. Joseph
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532699979

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Theologizing in Black by Celucien L. Joseph Pdf

Theologizing in Black is a creative and rigorous comparative study on black theological musings and liberative intellectual contemplations engaging the theological ethics and anthropology of both continental African theologians (Tanzania, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and black theologians in the African Diaspora (Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, United States). Using the pluralist approach to religion promoted by the philosopher of religion and theologian John Hick, the book is also an attempt to bridge an important gap in the comparative study of religion, Africana Studies, and Liberation theology, both in Africa and its diaspora. The book provides an analytical framework and intellectual critique of white Christian theologians who deliberately disengage with and exclude black and Africana theologians in their theological writings and conversations. From this vantage point, Africana critical theology is said to be a theology of contestation as it seeks to deconstruct white supremacy in the theological enterprise. This book not only articulates a rhetoric of protest about the misrepresentation and underrepresentation of the humanity of African and black people in white theological imagination; it also enunciates a positive image of black humanity and congruently promulgates a constructive representation of blackness. The paramount goal of Africana theological anthropology and ethics is the preservation of life and promotion of human dignity and the sheer acknowledgement that the African people and people of African descent are bearers of the image of God.

Author : Charles Bruce,David Livingstone,Paul Belloni Du Chaillu,Henry Morton Stanley,John Hanning Speke,Sir Samuel White Baker,Sir Donald Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : OCLC:45759492

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Stirring Adventure in African Travel: Great Explorers, Hunting Exploits, Shipwreck, Captivity, Bombardment by Charles Bruce,David Livingstone,Paul Belloni Du Chaillu,Henry Morton Stanley,John Hanning Speke,Sir Samuel White Baker,Sir Donald Cameron Pdf

Author : Sharla M. Fett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469630038

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Recaptured Africans by Sharla M. Fett Pdf

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the social world of these "recaptives" and recounts the relationships they built to survive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately, a second transatlantic voyage to Liberia. Fett also demonstrates how the presence of slave-trade refugees in southern ports accelerated heated arguments between divergent antebellum political movements--from abolitionist human rights campaigns to slave-trade revivalism--that used recaptives to support their claims about slavery, slave trading, and race. By focusing on shipmate relations rather than naval exploits or legal trials, and by analyzing the experiences of both children and adults of varying African origins, Fett provides the first history of U.S. slave-trade suppression centered on recaptive Africans themselves. In so doing, she examines the state of "recaptivity" as a distinctive variant of slave-trade captivity and situates the recaptives' story within the broader diaspora of "Liberated Africans" throughout the Atlantic world.

Author : Donovan Chau
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612512518

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Exploiting Africa by Donovan Chau Pdf

Exploiting Africa examines China’s role in Algeria, Ghana, and Tanzania from the 1950s to the 1970s. The Chinese arrived in Africa with little fanfare, yet they achieved an active presence that was more pragmatic than revolutionary. Though often couched in ideological rhetoric, Chinese goals in Africa were those of an aspiring world power. China skillfully used its limited diplomatic, intelligence, and economic means to shape events and to exploit its relationships to gain lasting influence on the continent. It is crucial to understand the nature and character of China’s historical actions in Africa in order to properly grasp the nation’s current and future policies. Rather than merely looking forward, one must look backward to comprehend the true nature of China in Africa.

Author : Everett Jenkins, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786445073

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Pan-African Chronology III by Everett Jenkins, Jr. Pdf

This third volume of the Pan-African Chronology set covers 1914 through 1929, a time of two seminal events: World War I and the Black Awakening. In World War I, people of African descent fought for both sides, earning distinction on the battlefields of France as well as in the jungles and deserts of Africa. The "Black Awakening," a period from 1919 through 1929, marked the dawning of global awareness of the contributions of African people to the culture of the world. The book is arranged by year and events of each year are grouped by region. It also has two special biographical divisions for W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey.

Author : Andrea K. Grove
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666925388

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Maneuver and Exploit by Andrea K. Grove Pdf

Why do leaders make foreign policy decisions that often appear irrational or engage in major reversals of previous policy to the extent that observers wonder at their intentions? How are leaders in the Global South (GS), the majority of which should lack much influence in international politics, sometimes are able to defy external pressure or even get powerful states to do their bidding? While some analysts focus on domestic politics or on external factors to explain shifts in foreign policy, the GS decision model emphasizes that observers forgo useful insights in applying these categories to occurrences that are in fact transnational—when the domestic and foreign cannot be disentangled. Drawing on the poliheuristic decision making model, which makes political survival paramount, Andrea K. Grove argues that leaders weigh political considerations and eliminate options that do not fit with the most pressing concerns for these leaders: legitimacy and regime security. Application of this model to the cases of Uganda, Kenya, Qatar, and Turkey not only improves understanding of foreign policy pathways but reveals ways in which leaders of developing states can manipulate their tough environments to serve their interests. They can sometimes exploit more powerful countries to raise their state’s profile beyond what is warranted by objective measures.

Author : Walter H. Wills,R. J. Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : South Africa
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105568182

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The Anglo-African Who's who and Biographical Sketch-book by Walter H. Wills,R. J. Barrett Pdf