HIST 3531 - History of Africa since 1800: Home
This guide contains library and web-based information for students enrolled in HIST 3531: History of Africa since 1800.
Welcome
This guide provides library and web-based information appropriate for students enrolled in HIST 3531: History of Africa since 1800, including Recommendations for Getting Started, finding Article Databases, quick links to Digital Collections, and more!
Image Source: Nyerere campaigning for Tanganyikan independence in March 1961 by The National Archives UK. Used under OGL v1.0.
Image Source: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti by UNESCO. Used under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Image Source: Statue of Lumumba in Kinshasa, erected in January 2002 after the fall of the Mobutu regime by MONUSCO. Used under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Documents from Library Sessions
Required Readings
Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana by
The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region experienced creeping British imperialism and incorporation into the British Gold Coast colony. Drawing on a wealth of Ghanian archival sources, historian Kwaku Nti shows how many aspects of traditional maritime daily life?customary ritual performances, fishing, and concepts of ownership, and land?served as a means of resistance and allowed residents to contest and influence the socio-political transformations of the era. Nti explored how the Ebusua (female) and Asafo (male) local social groups, especially in Cape Coast, became bastions of indigenous identity and traditions during British colonial rule, while at the same time functioning as focal points for demanding a share of emerging economic opportunities. A convincing demonstration of the power of the indigenous everyday life to complicate the reach of empire, Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana reveals a fuller history of West African coastal communities.
