The Athens Of West Africa

Author : Daniel J. Paracka, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135935993

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The Athens of West Africa by Daniel J. Paracka, Jr. Pdf

This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).

Author : Akibo Robinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781669876946

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THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ATHENS OF WEST AFRICA by Akibo Robinson Pdf

The country owed its name to the Portuguese explorer, Petro da Cintra, who was the first European to sight and map the Freetown Habour. The original Portuguese name, Sierra Lyoa (Lion Mountains) describes the range of hills that surrounds the habour. The capital Freetown commands one of the world’s largest natural habours. The country is located on the coast of West Africa, bounded on the North and East by Guinea, on the East by Liberia, and on the West by the Atlantic Ocean. It has many miles of beautiful sandy beaches. The backbone of the economy is agriculture, but it is rich in minerals – diamonds, gold, bauxite, and rutile. The book traces the rich pre-colonial history of a people whose main occupations then were agriculture and trade. Communal life was highly regulated by chiefs, who presided over their subjects. These societies were governed by what is now called “customary laws”. The book also debunks the thinking that Pedro da Cintra discovered Sierra Leone; he was not even the first European to set foot in Sierra Leone. It traces exhaustively the exploitative rule of the British Colonial Administration until its independence on 27th April 1961. Sierra Leone is credited as being, the “Athens of West Africa”. How this came about is explained at length. How can a small country so far removed from Athens be credited as such? The primary reason was for its learning. The first University in sub-Saharan Africa was established in Sierra Leone, and it attracted students from all over the continent. Woven into this academic fabric, is the politico-socio-economic development from the founding of the state up to the present. It traces the turbulent times the country has been through: coups and countercoups, declaration of a one party state, a brutal 11-year civil war, and the bastardisation of the constitution by various regimes, since independence up to the present.

Author : Daniel J. Paracka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : International education
ISBN : OCLC:52826877

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The Athens of West Africa by Daniel J. Paracka Pdf

Author : Daniel J. Paracka, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135935986

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The Athens of West Africa by Daniel J. Paracka, Jr. Pdf

This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).

Author : Lansana Gberie
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0253218551

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A Dirty War in West Africa by Lansana Gberie Pdf

Since 1991, this West African nation has been brought to its knees by a series of coups, violent conflicts, and finally, outright war. The war has ended today, but it is clear that things are hardly settled. Focusing on the group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), journalist Lansana Gberie exposes the corruption and appalling use of rape and mutilation as tactics to overthrow the former government. Gberie looks closely at the rise of the RUF and its ruthless leader, Foday Sankoh, as he seeks to understand the personalities and parties involved in the war.

Author : F. G. Ogini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016337201

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An outline history of West Africa by F. G. Ogini Pdf

Author : Emefa Takyi-Amoako
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441177858

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Education in West Africa by Emefa Takyi-Amoako Pdf

Education in West Africa is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. Written by regional experts, the book explores the education systems of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. It critically examines the development of education provision in each country, whilst exploring both local and global contexts. Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole, this handbook is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels.

Author : Harvey M. Feinberg
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 0871697971

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Africans and Europeans in West Africa by Harvey M. Feinberg Pdf

Author : Mary Eriken Sr
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789786020440

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Spirituality and Tertiary Education in West Africa by Mary Eriken Sr Pdf

This study is on aspects of formal tertiary education and students’ learning, especially a critical examination of factors that affect the attitudes and moral behaviours of university students towards learning and the possibility of spirituality as a source of sustainable motivation for students’ learning in Njala University, Sierra Leone.

Author : Ibrahim Abdullah,Ismail Rashid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786991706

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Understanding West Africa's Ebola Epidemic by Ibrahim Abdullah,Ismail Rashid Pdf

From 2013 to 2015, over 11,000 people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. Crucially, this epidemic marked the first time the virus was able to spread beyond rural areas to major cities, overturning conventional assumptions about its epidemiology. With backgrounds ranging from development to disease control, the contributors to this volume - some of them based in countries affected by the Ebola epidemic - consider the underlying factors that shaped this unprecedented outbreak. While championing the heroic efforts of local communities and aid workers in halting the spread of the disease, the contributors also reveal deep structural problems in both the countries and humanitarian agencies involved, which hampered the efforts to contain the epidemic. Alarmingly, they show that little has been learned from these events, with health provision remaining underfunded and poorly equipped to deal with future outbreaks. Such issues, they argue, reflect the wider challenges we face in tackling epidemic disease in an increasingly interconnected world.

Author : Reginald Cline-Cole,Elsbeth Robson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317904939

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West African Worlds by Reginald Cline-Cole,Elsbeth Robson Pdf

West African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africa’s most populous and arguably most externally focused region. With an emphasis on globalisation and modernisation, case studies and commentary are integrated throughout to highlight the concerns and issues of the region. Enriched by an impressive mix of West African voices, this text combines theory and application with policy and practice to address socio-economic change, the pursuit of livelihoods, and development within West Africa.

Author : Adekunle Ojelabi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : OCLC:56700067

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A Textbook of West African History by Adekunle Ojelabi Pdf

Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445662

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Themes in West Africa’s History by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong Pdf

There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major topics, as well as a short list of recommended reading, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. The first part of the book examines paths to a West African past, including perspectives from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two probes environment, society, and agency and historical change through essays on the slave trade, social inequality, religious interaction, poverty, disease, and urbanization. Part three sheds light on contemporary West Africa in exploring how economic and political developments have shaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. Themes in West Africa’s History represents a range of intellectual views and interpretations from leading scholars on West Africa’s history. It will appeal to college undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the way it draws on different disciplines and expertise to bring together key themes in West Africa’s history, from prehistory to the present.

Author : B. K. Swartz,Raymond E. Dumett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110800685

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West African Culture Dynamics by B. K. Swartz,Raymond E. Dumett Pdf

Author : T. A. Osae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 088908663X

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A Short History of West Africa, A.D. 1000 to the Present by T. A. Osae Pdf