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The Cambridge History of Africa Volume 5: c. 1790-c. 1870 (1977) — Redaktør — 27 eksemplarer
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If the previous volume narrated the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, the current volume in large measure covers the European response to the slave trade, and the attempts, lead by Britain, to stop the trade. These responses included both the establishment of a military presence to interdict the trade as well as colonies where emancipated slaves could be resettled. The history of these colonies mixes both noble intentions with clumsy administration that undermined the noble humanitarian rhetoric. Beyond the difficulties in enforcing the slave embargo among fellow Europeans, the African tribes whose economy was developed around the slave trade were as vigorous foes as the Atlantic powers that fought against its abolition. A far less noble picture of European involvement on the continent is found in the narrative of South Africa, especially the actions of the Dutch settlers. While the presence of Europeans was pervasive throughout the continent, as before, their influence was localized along the coast and navigable rivers, but the foundation was laid for the more widescale colonial exploitation was laid and witnessed in South African's experience. As the world markets became increasingly more global, the inclusion of Africans in the wider, global culture outside Africa was noted in a concluding chapter.… (mere)
 
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opeongo5 | Oct 28, 2023 |
This book is a political biography of one of the most important and least known British colonialists, George Goldie.

Born into a wealthy Manx family, Goldie “revived the chartered company as a method of acquiring and ruling territory, added the most populous of all the tropical African colonies to the British Empire, and contributed vital techniques to British administrative policies.”

Goldie founded the Royal Niger Company, the first British chartered company since the British East India Company, and the prototype of the later British South Africa and British East Africa companies, founded by Cecil Rhodes and William MacKinnon, respectively.

Through his Royal Niger Company, Goldie was instrumental in establishing British control over the lower Niger against French and German competition, and in formation of Nigeria by defeating the Banza Bakwai states of Nupe and Ilorin, thus enabling the British to establish the Northern Nigeria Protectorate, which later merged with the Company’s territories of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the Lagos Colony to form Nigeria’s current boundaries.

Don’t be surprised if you have never heard of Goldie; he didn’t ever want you to know about him. Unlike Rhodes, Goldie loathed publicity, and before his death “he systematically destroyed all of his papers, forbade his children to write anything about him or assist anyone who wished to do so, and threatened to haunt them after his death if they disobeyed him.”

I’d recommend this book for anyone interested in Nigeria or European colonialism in West Africa. The book provides a fairly balanced account of European colonialism in Nigeria and West Africa; it is definitely not like the colonialist trash published by Fuglestad!
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