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Oct 8, 2014 · West Africa before the Colonial Era. A History to 1850. By Basil Davidson. Edition 1st Edition. First Published 1998. eBook Published 8 October 2014. Pub. Location London. Imprint Routledge. DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315840369. Pages 272. eBook ISBN 9781315840369.
- Basil Davidson
- London
- 1998
- Centralization of Power
- Neo-Patrimonial and Clientelistic Politics
- Foreign Intervention
- Intrastate Conflicts in The Post-Cold War Period
In response to this challenge, African leaders resorted to the centralization of power banning multi-party politics as they saw such form of politics as anti-progress and divisive, and therefore, a potential threat to peace, unity and stability. Moreover, the dominant view at the time was that the main task of the post-colonial state was to pursue ...
As post-colonial nation and statebuilding failed to achieve unity among diverse groups, personal rule, neo-patriomonialism and clientelistic politics became dominant features of African politics. Since an extensive literature has dealt with the subjects of personal rule, clientelism and the neo-patrimonial nature of many African states, this chapte...
Besides the internal political factors that led to the crumbling of domestic political order in Africa, external meddling in the internal affairs of African states in the post-independence period also contributed to many of the challenges that are affecting them today.Footnote 14 This includes military and political intervention during the periods ...
The end of the Cold War also witnessed the spread of democratic and participatory politics across sub-Saharan Africa with varying success. This upsurge in democratic transitions in Africa saw a number of African states adopting constitutions that aimed at promoting multi-party systems, separating the powers of the executive, the judiciary and the l...
- Patrick Tom
- 2017
This is a survey of the development and history of the societies and culture of West Africa until c.1850 when European imperialism put an end, temporarily, to the story. The narrative accounts of a number of the major empires of West Africa are set in their broad context, illuminated by the findings of cultural historians and anthropologists.
Oct 18, 2019 · An awareness of the divergent worldviews of West African women enables a more representative contextualization of their daily lives in the pre-colonial period. It also limits the tendency to treat West African women as a homogenous and monolithic group.
In the Middle Ages, North and East Africa was further colonised by people from Western Asia. In the Modern Era, Western Europeans colonised regions in all the continent's 5 major "parts", culminating in the Scramble for Africa in the late 19th century, during which nearly the entire continent was colonized.
Published online: 27 July 2017. Summary. Perspectives on southern Africa’s past in the eras before the establishment of European colonial rule have been heavily shaped by political conflicts rooted in South Africa’s history as a society of colonial settlement.
Western colonialism, a political-economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world. The age of modern colonialism began about 1500, following the European discoveries of a sea route around Africa’s southern coast (1488) and of America (1492).
