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Journal of Economic Literature. 58 (1): 53–128. Miers, Suzanne; Klein, Martin A. (1998). Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa (Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures). Routledge. ISBN 9780714644363. Nabudere, D. Wadada. Imperialism in East Africa (2 vol 1981) online; Olson, James S., ed. Historical Dictionary of the British Empire (1996 ...
As of 2024 the most read/downloaded article of all time is 'The Scramble for East Africa: British Motives Reconsidered, 1884–95' written by Jonas Fossli Gjersø in 2015. [3] Additionally, as of 2024 the most cited is 'The imperialism of decolonization' written by Wm. Roger Louis and Ronald Robinson in 1994. [4] Editors-in-Chief. 1972 to 1976 ...
European Colonial Rule, 1880–1940: The Impact of the West on India, Southeast Asia, and Africa (1982) 581pp; Betts, Raymond F. The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (1975) Betts, Raymond F. Uncertain Dimensions: Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century (1985) Black, Jeremy.
By the end of the nineteenth century; the majority of major European powers sought to expand their dominion into Africa. France in particular saw this as an opportunity to “[link] France’s territorial conquests in Africa along a west-east axis”, [2] thereby limiting Britain's influence in the region.
] BBC published an article about the growing corruption and devastation in Africa. In response to this article, Edward Mendy stated, "The BBC article, in my opinion, was a typical distortion and sensationalizing of news out of Africa". [7] He continues on claiming, "Africa is developing. The development may be slow but it is sure".
A second cause of weakness in Portuguese Africa was the effects of three centuries of Atlantic slave trade which had roots in the older African slave trade. Once the Atlantic triangular trade got underway, many Portuguese (including many Brazilian traders) in Africa found little incentive to engage in any other kind of profitable economic activity.
The decolonization of Africa started with Libya in 1951, although Liberia, South Africa, Egypt and Ethiopia were already independent. Many countries followed in the 1950s and 1960s, with a peak in 1960 with the Year of Africa, which saw 17 African nations declare independence, including a large part of French West Africa. Most of the remaining ...
Inter Press Service News Agency, September 30, 2006; Nunn, Nathan. "The Long Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades." The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2008, pp. 139–76; Rimmer, D. The Economies of West Africa (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984). Rodney, Walter. A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545–1800 (Clarendon Press, 1970 ...