Author: Gerhard Seibert Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047408438 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 635
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This book provides comprehensive information on the 500-year long colonial history, post-colonial politics, and local political culture and practice of the island republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, one of the smallest and least known African countries.
Author: Kathleen Becker Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides ISBN: 9781841622163 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 260
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This is the first stand-alone guide to Africa's second-smallest country, São Tomé & Príncipe, renowned for its enticing blend of African, Portuguese and Caribbean culture.
Author: Patrick Chabal Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253215659 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
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" . . . useful, timely, and important . . . a good and informative book on the Lusophone countries, Portuguese colonialism, and postcolonial influences." —Phyllis Martin, Indiana University "This book, produced by the obvious—and distinguished—corps of country specialists . . . fills a real gap in both state-level and 'regional' (broadly defined) studies of contemporary Africa." —Norrie MacQueen, University of Dundee Although the five Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa that gained independence in 1974/75—Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé e Príncipe—differ from each other in many ways, they share a history of Portuguese rule going back to the 15th century, which has left a mark to this day. Patrick Chabal and his co-authors assess the nature of the Portuguese legacy, using a twofold approach. In Part I, three analytical, thematic chapters by Chabal examine what the five countries have in common and how they differ from the rest of Africa. In Part II, individual chapters by leading specialists, each devoted to a specific country, survey the histories of those countries since independence. The book places the postcolonial experience of the Lusophone countries within the context of their precolonial and colonial past and compares and contrasts their experience with that of non-Lusophone African states. The result is a comprehensive, readable, and up-to-date text and reference work on the evolution of postcolonial Portuguese-speaking Africa.
Author: Patricio Vitorino Langa Publisher: African Minds ISBN: 1920677038 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 122
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This publication is the result of a baseline study of the state of the higher education systems in the five Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (PALOP): Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. The project was undertaken by an African international expert in the field of higher education studies and was fully sponsored and supported by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). The report offers a historical overview of the development of higher education in PALOP from colonial times to the present. The main objective of this baseline study is to map the landscape and dynamics of change in the higher education systems of PALOP countries. It focuses on describing the latest developments of trends of expansion, financing, governance and policy reforms closely linked to the development of higher education systems in these countries. Furthermore, the study will facilitate an informed debate and the dissemination of knowledge on the role of higher education for development in Africa.
Author: Emmanuel O Oritsejafor Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000384586 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy. The exploitation of Africa’s rich resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world powers to sustain their authority over their own middle-class populations while rewarding African collaborators in leadership positions for subjecting their populations into poverty and desperation. Middle-class obsessions such as computers, mobile phones, cars and the petroleum that fuels them, diamonds, chocolate – all of these products require African resources that are typically obtained by child or slave labor that helps to generate billionaires out of foreign investors while impoverishing most Africans. Oritsejafor and Cooper demonstrate that "primitive accumulation," believed by both Adam Smith and Karl Marx to be a process that precedes capitalism, is actually an integral part of capitalism. They also validate the thesis that capitalism incorporates racism as an organizing tool for the exploitation of labor in Africa and on a global scale. Case studies are presented on Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Congo, Tanzania, Somalia, Angola, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, and South Sudan. There are also chapters analyzing the interests of Russia and China in Africa. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics, development, and economics.
Author: Robin Law Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 184701075X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 290
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This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham.
Author: Catherine Higgs Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0821444220 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 247
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In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying from the islands had been harvested by slave laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the early colonial era. Burtt spent six months on São Tomé and Príncipe and a year in Angola. His five-month march across Angola in 1906 took him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and ultimately helped change labor recruiting practices in colonial Africa. This beautifully written and engaging travel narrative draws on collections in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Africa to explore British and Portuguese attitudes toward work, slavery, race, and imperialism. In a story still familiar a century after Burtt’s sojourn, Chocolate Islands reveals the idealism, naivety, and racism that shaped attitudes toward Africa, even among those who sought to improve the conditions of its workers.
Author: Henry Woodd Nevinson Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 165
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"A Modern Slavery" by Henry Woodd Nevinson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Albertino Da Boa Morte Francisco Publisher: ISBN: 9789899621701 Category : Political corruption Languages : en Pages : 204
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This rather intriguingly titled book offers ideas about how to take 'decisive steps towards removing evil souls from the political environment' in the former Portuguese colony of Sao Tome and Principe (STP) in West Africa, and establishing social conditions in which this defunct state can revive and flourish as a democracy. It is a political treatise that analyses STP's specific problems, censures those who have caused or contributed to them, proposes viable solutions, and attempts to bring the issue to wider public attention. Albertino & Nujoma's book clearly has a significant agenda, and as a socio-political document alone, it makes interesting reading as it charts STP's fortunes since achieving independence in 1975. The symbolic slant does not mask the very real practical problems faced by the island, which the authors discuss with knowledge and insight. They consider, for example, the corruption, despotism and illegal activities of Presidents Pinto da Costa, Miguel Trovoada and Fradique de Menezes; the failure to properly exploit the island's natural resources; issues of insularity; economic instability and political 'illiteracy', etc, which make this natural 'paradise on Earth' a 'complete human misfortune'. And although their talk of the 'evil souls' of their country's rulers may seem to hint at religious zeal or even extremism, they have a valid (and indeed universal) point to make about the nature of those who often run governments - for the benefit of an elite few rather than the good of all. The prose style is quite original in that the authors frequently employ metaphors to illustrate a factual and painful situation: the political status in So Tom is a 'game' and a 'dance'; its people have walked in 'a desert of poor governance' for years and are reduced to the role of 'clowns of the court'; policy-makers are likened to 'crazy ants' while da Costa, Trovoada and de Menezes are erratic 'chameleons' and other Sao Tomean politicians are 'monkeys' and their ideas the branches from which they leap, one to another, indiscriminately. So, rather than the strict formality we might expect from a book of this nature, Albertino & Nujoma offer a far more lyrical style of writing, which renders the picture they paint more vivid. That said, there are more prosaic touches - for instance, in the sections on STP's annual budget, petrol negotiation etc, which employ statistics to back up their points. As a book about a small African archipelago that is virtually unknown on the international stage, Exorcising Devils from the Throne is a fascinating take on a difficult and pressing issue.
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