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Author : L. H. Gann
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521086417
A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.
Author : L. H. Gann
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File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : L. H. Gann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 1969-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521073738
Author : p. editor. g Duignan
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File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 1969
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Page : 563 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Lewis Henry Gann
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : L. H. Gann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1969-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521073738
Author : Lewis Henry Gann
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Lewis H. Gann
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File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Africa
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Author : Osumaka Likaka
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0299233634
What’s in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and reacted to colonialism. The arrival of explorers, missionaries, administrators, and company agents allowed Africans to observe Westerners’ physical appearances, behavior, and cultural practices at close range—often resulting in subtle yet trenchant critiques. By naming Europeans, Africans turned a universal practice into a local mnemonic system, recording and preserving the village’s understanding of colonialism in the form of pithy verbal expressions that were easy to remember and transmit across localities, regions, and generations. Methodologically innovative, Naming Colonialism advances a new approach that shows how a cultural process—the naming of Europeans—can provide a point of entry into economic and social histories. Drawing on archival documents and oral interviews, Likaka encounters and analyzes a welter of coded fragments. The vivid epithets Congolese gave to rubber company agents—“the home burner,” “Leopard,” “Beat, beat,” “The hippopotamus-hide whip”—clearly conveyed the violence that underpinned colonial extractive economies. Other names were subtler, hinting at derogatory meaning by way of riddles, metaphors, or symbols to which the Europeans were oblivious. Africans thus emerge from this study as autonomous actors whose capacity to observe, categorize, and evaluate reverses our usual optic, providing a critical window on Central African colonialism in its local and regional dimensions.