Introduction - Western Africa: ecological zones & human geography - Commercial networks: Biafada-Sapi, Banyun-Bak & Cabo Verdean-Lancado - Portuguese, Luso- Africans & European competitors - Western Africa & the onset of an era of droughts, famines & global economic transformations - The evolution of 'nharaship' in Senegambia - Trade with the Kaabu empire & Serra Leoa - Era of the second Cacheu Company - Expanding slave-trading networks & the corruption of African social & cultural patterns - Senegambia: Luso-Africans supplanted by Franco-Africans - Geba-Grande & Serra Leoa: Luso-Africans challenged & supplanted by Anglo-Africans - References.
George E. Brooks is Professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington.
George Brooks provides Africanists and those interested in Africa's
history with a most informative book. It contains an enormous
number of useful references for researchers, and effortlessly
crosses and connects regional boundaries as well as chronological
sequences. Appearing to be very much at ease with data culled from
a large number of Portuguese, Dutch, English and French sources,
the author succeeds in sustaining the main threads of his analysis
throughout the book. Covering the period of the slave trade, it
draws and further elaborates upon the work of Jean Boulegue,
Boubacar Barry, Donald Wright, Philip Curtin, Walter Rodney,
Christopher Fyfe, and many others. As such it is a timely review of
a turbulent episode in West African history while focusing on
lesser known groups of intermediaries that played an important,
albeit generally underestimated, role in Afro-Atlantic relations.
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*AFRICAN REVIEW OF BOOKS*
Brooks provides new historical material, notably the origins the
imposition of tripartite social stratifications.
*ARAS Australia*
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