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Félix Eboué

African Proconsuls. European Governors in Africa. L.H. Gann & Peter Duignan, eds. New York/London/Stanford. The Free Press/Collier Macmillan Publishers & Hoover Institution. 548 pages Félix Eboué by Brian Weinstein Governor-general Félix Eboué (1884-1944) Félix Eboué may be the most famous governor in French imperial history, yet he is one of the...

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G. Wesley Johnson, Jr./William Ponty (1866-1915) and Republican Paternalism in French West Africa

African Proconsuls. European Governors in Africa. L.H. Gann & Peter Duignan, eds. New York/London/Stanford. The Free Press/Collier Macmillan Publishers & Hoover Institution. 1978. 548 pages G. Wesley Johnson, Jr. William Ponty (1866-1915) and Republican Paternalism in French West Africa L'Afrique fut sa grande passion, elle fut sa raison de vivre,...

Introduction

  William Cohen Rulers of Empire: the French Colonial Service in Africa Hoover Institution Press. Stanford University. 1971. 279 p. Introduction Forts and trading posts acquired in the seventeenth century on the coast of West Africa became the springboard for French territorial conquests in Senegal in the mid-nineteenth century. From...

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General History of Africa/Volume IV/Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century/Contents

Djibril Tamsir Niane. 2008 UNESCO — General History of Africa Volume IV Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century Djibril Tamsir Niane, editor, 1984, 752 pp. Contents List of figures List of plates Acknowledgements for plates Note on chronology Preface Amadou-Mahtar M'bow, Director-General of Unesco Description of the Project B. A. Ogot, President of the International...

Bedouin Arabs

George Peter Murdock 1897 — 1985 Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Africa. Its Peoples and Their Culture History New York. McGraw-Hill. 1959. 456 p. Explore also (a) the SemanticAfrica Peoples Vocabulary (b) the Bedouin Arabs mind-mapping diagram Part Eleven North and West African Pastoralism — 52 — Bedouin Arabs Within less than a decade after the...