The African Inheritance

ISBN-13: 9780415010917 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 232 str.

Ieuan Ll Griffiths; I. Griffiths;Griffiths Ieuan

Opis

Africa is a continent gripped by civil wars, refugees, and widespread famine. A significant number of the causes of these crises are deep rooted, many extending back to the continent's colonial past when Africa was partitioned between European powers - partitions that survived as the former colonies became separate sovereign states. The book discusses pre-colonial Africa, the increasing European interest in the continent, the European partition and the subsequent colonial rule and de-colonization.

Spis treści

1 INTRODUCTION 2 PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA 3 EUROPEANS AND AFRICA, 1415–1885 4 THE EUROPEAN PARTITION OF AFRICA 5 COLONIAL AFRICA 6 PROTECTING APARTHEID 7 THE STATES OF MODERN AFRICA 8 POLITICAL BOUNDARIES 9 CAPITAL CITIES 10 LAND-LOCKED STATES 11 SECESSIONIST MOVEMENTS 12 IRREDENTISM 13 AFRICAN IMPERIALISM 14 POLITICAL UNION 15 ECONOMIC GROUPINGS 16 INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT 17 CONCLUSIONS

O autorze

Ieuan L l. Griffiths is Reader in Geography in the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex.