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African political transitions
Author_Michael Crowder
Bankole Bright
Beef Tape Worm
Big Game
British and French colonialism
British West Africa
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Colonial Administrations
colonial West Africa
comparative colonial legacies in Africa
cultural change twentieth century
Dan Fodio
decolonisation studies
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Fouta Djallon
Franco-African Community
French African
French Soudan
French West Africa
Grand Conseil
independence movements West Africa
Independence West Africa
Islam
Ivory Coast
Nigeria
North Dahomey
Northern Nigeria
Office Du Niger
Portuguese Guinea
postcolonial governance
Sierra Leone People's Party
Sierra Leone People’s Party
Superb
Tape Worm
Touring
United Middle Belt Congress
Water Boatmen
West African history
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781032568515
- Weight: 417g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1959, this book charts the journey made by the author and a Creole journalist from Sierra Leone across West Africa at a time when a political, economic and cultural revolution was taking place. It was not so much the exotic tribal Africa as the new Africa of the politicians, the aspects characteristic of the period of transition that fascinated Crowder. He was struck by the differences produced by years of British and French rule. He talked with governors and the governed wherever he went. Part travelogue, part academic study, this is a fascinating portrait of West Africa on the cusp of monumental change in the second half of the 20th Century.
Michael Crowder worked for most of his adult life in West africa, mainly in Nigeria. He was visiting Professor at the University of Lagos, Professor of History at Ahmadu Bello University and founder of the Centre of Nigerial Cultural Studies. He was Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ife and visiting lecturer at the UCLA Berkeley and Columbia University. In 1964 he was made an Officer of the National Order of Senegal.
