ONLY WEST INDIANS
Creole Nationalism in the British West IndiesBy F. S. J. Ledgister
Inverting the racist hierarchy of nineteenth-century British imperial thought, twentieth-century political activists in the British West Indies used the concepts of liberal ideology to claim that the subject people of the West Indies constituted a Creole nation that deserved the right to govern itself. This study of the origins and major figures of Creole nationalism considers both its limitations and its possibilities. |
KOSSOYE
A Village Life in EthiopiaBy Andrew J. Carlson and Dennis C. Carlson
“This is one of those rare books that traces the social and economic development and cultural transformation of an Ethiopian community over the past half-century. The authors have skillfully blended first-hand accounts of the lives of some of the social innovators with relevant insights into the major political, cultural, economic and demographic changes that have shaped the community as it exists today. This provides a good introduction for any reader interested in how development processes shape and reshape communities over time, particularly in the African context.”
--Henry Mosley, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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A POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF ONITSHA 1917-1970by Okechukwu Edward Okeke
Located on the eastern bank of the lower Niger, Onitsha is one of the leading commercial cities and road transport hubs in Nigeria. Its main market is reputed to be the biggest in West Africa. Founded well before the twentieth century by an Igbo community, it is also predominantly Igbo in population. For a greater part of the twentieth century, up to the late 1950s, it was the leading educational center in southeastern Nigeria. During this period, it spawned a large volume of fictional |
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON NAWAL EL SAADAWIEdited by Ernest N. Emenyonu and Maureen N. Eke
This edited volume focuses on the writings of Nawal El Saadawi, generally acclaimed as ‘the Arab world’s leading feminist and iconoclast’. Saadawi’s concerns and advocacy for the struggles of women of the Arab world have progressively blossomed into a concern for the struggles of women all over the globe—the underprivileged, the subaltern, the disenfranchised, and all women suffering from the burdens of oppression, patriarchy, injustice, and dehumanization—attributable to feudalistic, religious, political, cultural, or economic systems. She aptly describes herself as a ‘socialist feminist.’ |
A NATION BETRAYED
Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957by Michael Vickers
The 1950s were traumatic years for the British. A mighty Empire was in its death-throes. But for Africans these were years of immense exhilaration, of great expectations. Independence was within close reach. And in Nigeria, it was accepted that it should come quickly. But there was a problem. Nigeria’s minorities, peoples—comprising about 40 per cent of the country’s population—profoundly feared for their future |
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