West African Responses to European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Edition 1

by Ugboaja F. Ohaegbulam

Overview

West African Responses to European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries provides a brief survey of West Africa before the imperial expansion of Western European nations to the region. Author F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam offers insight into the cultural values, practices, and civilization West African society had developed prior to the imposition of European imperialism. He examines the origins, causes, nature, and consequences of the European expansion to West Africa. Ohaegbulam documents the theories and ideologies used to justify the expansion, the strategies of the expansion, and the policies of imperial control and their consequences, while discussing the various measures West African societies adopted during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to resist European imperialism, which eventually collapsed less than two decades after the end of World War II. Showing how, after the collapse, West Africa faced a formidable task of building new post-colonial states and reinvigorating its culture, Ohaegbulam asserts that West Africa needs new visionary and committed leaders to maximize the positive aspects of this mixed record.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761824060
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	10/02/2002
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.48(w) x 8.44(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam is Professor of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida, Tampa.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 West Africa Before the Western Europeans Came Chapter 3 Cultural Interaction Between West Africa and Western European Nations: The Origins Chapter 4 European Partition and Occupation of Africa Chapter 5 West African Responses to Western European Imperialism Chapter 6 Cultural/Literary Protest in British West Africa Chapter 7 Non-Violent Political and Economic Protests in British West Africa Chapter 8 Cultural/Literary Protest in French West Africa Chapter 9 Non-Violent Political and Economic Protests in French West Africa Chapter 10 Portuguese Imperialism in West Africa: Origins and Demise Chapter 11 West African Responses to European Imperialism in West Africa: An Assessment Chapter 12 Index

Editorial Reviews

Overall, this study is truly thought-provoking and well worth reading.

Itinerario - Carolyn N. Biltoft

Here is a book that scholars and students will use for its breadth and comprehensive, even daunting scope on quite an array of fascinating and important imperial subtopics.

Africa Today - Barnett Singer

Here is a book that scholars and students will use for its breadth and comprehensive, even daunting scope on quite an array of fascinating and important imperial subtopics.--Barnett Singer, Brock University "Africa Today "

Overall, this study is truly thought-provoking and well worth reading.--Carolyn N. Biltoft, Princeton University "Itinerario "

From the Publisher

Overall, this study is truly thought-provoking and well worth reading.
— Carolyn N. Biltoft, Princeton University

Itinerario

Here is a book that scholars and students will use for its breadth and comprehensive, even daunting scope on quite an array of fascinating and important imperial subtopics.
— Barnett Singer, Brock University

Africa Today