West African studies
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'West African Studies' is a travelog and ethnography book that details the remarkable journey of Mary Henrietta Kingsley, an English explorer who challenged societal norms by traveling alone to West Africa to learn about the cultures and traditions of its people. With no husband or other European company, Kingsley gained the respect and trust of the African people and became one of the first non-African women to study and document their way of life. She encountered the horrific practice of twin killing and worked alongside Scottish missionary Mary Slessor to stop it, while also collecting spec...
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- PREFACE TO THE READER
- FOOTNOTES:
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- FOOTNOTES:
- WEST AFRICAN STUDIES
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II SIERRA LEONE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III AFRICAN CHARACTERISTICS
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IV FISHING IN WEST AFRICA.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V.
- FETISH.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI
- SCHOOLS OF FETISH
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VII FETISH AND WITCHCRAFT
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VIII AFRICAN MEDICINE
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IX THE WITCH DOCTOR
- CHAPTER X EARLY TRADE IN WEST AFRICA
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XI FRENCH DISCOVERY OF WEST AFRICA
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XII COMMERCE IN WEST AFRICA
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIII THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIV THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM IN WEST AFRICA
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XV MORE OF THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVI THE CLASH OF CULTURES
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVII
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVIII AFRICAN PROPERTY
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I
- A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIVES OF THE NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR CUSTOMS, RELIGION, TRADE, &c. BY M. le COMTE C. N. de CARDI.
- NATIVE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN BENIN, AND RELIGION
- ORIGIN OF THE BENIN CITY PEOPLE
- BRASS RIVER
- RELIGION
- NEW CALABAR
- BONNY AND THE PEPPLE FAMILY
- ANDONI RIVER AND ITS INHABITANTS.
- OPOBO RIVER.
- KWO IBO.
- OLD CALABAR.
- SECRET SOCIETIES AND FESTIVALS IN OLD CALABAR—AND THE COUNTRIES UP THE CROSS RIVER
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX II PART I
- A VOYAGE TO THE AFRICAN OIL RIVERS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. BY JOHN HARFORD
- TRADING IN THE CAMEROONS
- APPENDIX II PART II
- PIONEERING IN WEST AFRICA; OR, “THE OPENING UP OF THE QUA IBOE RIVER”
- APPENDIX III
- TRADE GOODS USED IN THE EARLY TRADE WITH AFRICA AS GIVEN BY BARBOT AND OTHER WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. BY M. H. KINGSLEY
- GAMBIA TRADE, 1678.
- SIERRA LEONE, 1678.
- THE GOLD COAST.
- USE MADE OF EUROPEAN GOODS BY THE NATIVES OF THE GOLD COAST. BARBOT.
- SELECTION OF GOODS FOR FIDA OR ONIDAH, CALLED BY THE FRENCH JUIDA, NOW KNOWN AS DAHOMEY, WITH MAIN SEAPORT WHYDAH.
- BENIN TRADE GOODS.
- OUWERE (NOW CALLED WARRI) TRADE, AND THE NEW CALABAR TRADE, 1678.
- OLD CALABAR TRADE, 1678.
- TRADE OF RIO DEL REY, AMBOZES COUNTRY, CAMARONES RIVER, AND DOWN TO RIO GABON.
- SELECTION OF GOODS FOR THE ISLANDS FERNANDO PO, ST. THOMAS’S, PRINCE’S, AND ANNOBON.
- TRADE GOODS FOR CONGO AND CABENDA, 1700.
- TRADE GOODS FOR SAN PAUL DO LOANDA.
- FOOTNOTES:
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