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Featuring 12 papers from the 'Money in Africa' conference held at the British Museum, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to consider the role that money and trade plays in our understanding of African history. Ranging from the 10th century ad to the present day, the chapters cover the pre-colonial and colonial currencies of Africa, including copper, cowry shells, beads, manillas and gin; and coins, counterfeiting, banking and the symbolism of money in modern Africa.
“A call to arms in the class struggle for racial equity”—the hugely influential work of political theory and history, now powerfully introduced by Angela Davis (Los Angeles Review of Books). This legendary classic on European colonialism in Africa stands alongside C.L.R. James’ Black Jacobins, Eric Williams’ Capitalism & Slavery, and W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. 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.
A wide-ranging study of a previously neglected but pivotal period in the colonial history of the Gold Coast, Ghana During the First World War identifies the lasting economic and political impact of this period and offers a reappraisal of British rule in a typical equatorial protectorate.
From 1901 uirixl 1957 the component areas of the Gold Coast - Ashanti, the Northern Territories and the Colony - were administered by the United Kingdom as a single colonial unit. In addition to providing a political framework for the development of nationalism and, ultimatelj^, the modern state of Ghana, British rule also influenced the local economy. The present study is concerned with tracing the political impact of Great Britain upon the Gold Coast economy, during the colonial period. Although there is good reason to believe that the original annexations were inspired by the possibility of economic advantages accruing to the metropolitan country, there is little evidence to support the view that deliberate ? exploitation 9 followed the establishment of British rule. On the other hand it is clear, in retrospect, that the policies adopted by the local Administration and the imperial Government were not always in the best interests of the Gold Coast. In particular, it was not until after 1945 that any serious attempts were made to counteract the development of an excessive dependence upon external trade. World War II was in many ways a critically importa nt period for the Gold Coast. By 1945 the political objective of self-government for colonial territories had been accepted by Great Britain, and the state was believed to occupy a more important economic role than had previously been allowed, The war-time expedients of state-marketing and various government controls over the economy were retained in British West Africa after 1945 - in addition, the governments of the four colonies undertook a number of new development projects, particularly in the industrial field. The prominence of public enterprise was one of the more significant colonial legacies bequeathed to the new state of Ghana in 1957-
This is an illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The main scenes of the story take place in the courtroom, where Abina strives to convince a series of "important men"--A British judge, two Euro-African attorneys, a wealthy African country "gentleman," and a jury of local leaders --that her rights matter.--Publisher description.
This book analyzes the Gold Coast and the Asante kingdom in the years following the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and prior to the start of colonial rule. The Asante state, one of the largest in the Gold Coast and West Africa after the eighteenth century is the central focus of this work. Studying their transition from a large scale supplier of captives to the transatlantic slave trade to traders in legitimate goods is a critical component that should be analyzed across West Africa. This work highlights the political and economic relationships between the interior Asante state with surrounding African groups and Europeans, chiefly British traders who entered the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.