Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980Routledge, 2015 M03 24 - 262 pages Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Africa: the slave traders and slaves, missionaries and explorers, imperialists and miners, farmers, settlers, lawyers, chiefs, prophets, intellectuals, politicians, and soldiers of all colors. The authors show that the oft-told narrative of a monolithic imperial power ruling inexorably over passive African victims no longer stands scrutiny; rather, at every turn, Africans and Britons interacted with one another in a complex set of relationships that involved as much cooperation and negotiation as resistance and force, whether during the era of the slave trade, the world wars, or the period of decolonization. The British presence provoked a wide range of responses, reactions, and transformations in various aspects of African life; but at the same time, the experience of empire in Africa – and its ultimate collapse – also compelled the British to view themselves and their empire in new ways. Written by an Africanist and a historian of imperial Britain and illustrated with maps and photographs, Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 provides a uniquely rich perspective for understanding both African and British history. |
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... Lugard. Waiyaki was a prominent and wealthy landowning warrior, trader, and elder; Lugard, the leader of a caravan of British adventurers in the employ of the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC), making its precarious and ...
... Lugard and his colleagues, despite their misgivings. Now, it seemed, they had been right. In the interactions of Waiyaki wa Hinga and Frederick Lugard we have a window into the dynamics that characterized the dealings between Africans ...
... Lugard was wrong on two scores. First, Waiyaki«s father. ¥. Hinga. ¥. was born to Maasai parents; Waiyaki and his mother had fled to a Kikuyu village during a time of famine and. ®become. Kikuyu. ̄ Waiyaki«s adoption into a Kikuyu clan was ...
... Lugard. ¥. and the indigenous men they established as their indirect rulers. We also consider the interactions between Africans in which British personnel did not directly appear: government-appointed chiefs and those they tried to force ...
... Lugard,. 1 Quoted in L.S.B. Leakey, The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, Vol. I (London: Academic Press, 1977), 73. 2 Quoted in Godfrey Muriuki, A History of the Kikuyu, 1500–1900 (Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1974), 149.
Contents
Missionaries merchants and explorers 1840s1880s | |
The scramble for Africa 1870s1890s | |
Violence negotiation and consolidating British rule 1890s1914 | |
Africans in the white mans wars 19141945 | |
Independence for Africans and Britons 1960s1970s | |
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Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 Myles Osborne,Susan Kingsley Kent No preview available - 2015 |