It is well known that Africa's development lags behind that of other regions. Lesser known is the substantial variance in development fortunes within Africa, with "miracle" economies compensating for the region's development disasters. Prevailing theories of Africa's average performance fail to account for intra-African disparities.
For French West Africa, Huillery examines the long-term impact of colonial public investments in schools and health clinics. Due to the limited number of Christian missions in French West Africa, she studies the role of investments into education and health by the colonial state during the early colonial era (1910–1928).
PDF | This paper summarizes indigenous mining methods used to collect metal ores in pre-colonial southern Africa, south of …
These four developments had important effects on production systems in pre-colonial Africa. 1 f2. Conditions in pre-colonial Africa Population density was low in most regions and at most times in pre-colonial Africa. Because people were widely spread out, land was in abundance but labour was scarce.
production in pre-colonial Africa through the structures of kinship; dynamics that gained coherence and depth through missionary and colonial education, the codification of customary and Islamic law under colonial rule, and the male bias in colonial economies based on agriculture, commerce and mining.
The Afrocentric school argues that pre-colonial African leaders. were responsible and responsive to their subjects and avoided corruption as much. as possible. It maintains that traditional ...
One of the most important points to consider relates to the ecological impact of mining and metallurgy in precolonial Africa. Mining currently has a significant negative …
Abstract. Chiefdoms were ubiquitous throughout pre-colonial Africa for over a millennium before the modern era, and the primary institutions of governance across the continent were the chieftaincy ...
One of the primary elements in colonial enterprise and a factor in the movement of colonial frontiers in Australia (and elsewhere including South Africa, Canada and the USA) was mining. In nineteenth century Australia, this was dramatically realised through a gold rush epoch. A global phenomenon, gold rushes for Australia were a …
KEYWORDS: pre-colonial Nigeria, colonial Nigeria, post-colonial era, environmental sustainability, refuse dumps INTRODUCTION The health hazards the citizenry of Nigeria have been facing in the last thirty years lives much to be desired. These health hazards were rare or almost unknown in the Pre-colonial Nigeria societies
An evolving mining sector: historic enabler of progress in Africa. Africa has long exploited its mineral resources. In fact, the oldest mines in the world are to be found in Africa such as the Ingwenya mine in Swaziland, which was exploited 20,000 years ago for iron ores for rock paintings. In addition, there are thousands of ancient gold and ...
Abstract. The chapter examines pre-colonial systems that enable the reader to enquire what led to the present leadership dilemma in Africa. It highlights pre …
Although we now live in the twenty-first century, Africa still feels the consequences of nineteenth-century Western imperialism. A number of scholars on the crisis of post-colonial states in Africa have partly attributed it to the continent's colonial inheritance (Griffiths 1995; Nhema and Zeleza 2008).It is imperative to examine the …
text. Pre-colonial mining in southern Africa. by A. Hammel*, C. White*, S. Pfeiffer†, and D. Miller‡. Synopsis. This paper summarizes indigenous mining methods used to collect …
that both pre- and post-colonial communities could have signifi- cant impacts on tropical forest environments, change precipitation patterns and even global emissions (e.g. Cook et al., 2012; Fuller
This paper studies the effect of pre-colonial ethnic institutions on political competitiveness between political parties in democratic elections today. Our analysis leverages geo-referenced data from 15 countries and around 2700 electoral constituencies in sub-Saharan Africa. We establish the level of pre-colonial centralization in each ...
These four developments had important effects on production systems in pre-colonial Africa. 1 f2. Conditions in pre-colonial Africa Population density was low in most regions and at most times in pre-colonial …
The purpose of this study was to review the state of access, utilization and quality of instructional technology during the pre-colonial, colonial post-colonial periods in Africa. With the way the rest of the world is adapting to changes in information and communication technologies in pedagogy, Africa's growth in ICTs appears to be sluggish.
Prior to the arrival of European settlers in the Cape Colony in 1652, formal and informal educational practices through the transmission of indigenous knowledge from adult to child had long been in existence among the Khoi, the San and the Bantu-speaking people of Southern Africa. The African child was brought up by the community and …
We commence with important observations about Sub-Saharan Africa's physical environment, community and economy in the pre-colonial era, noting patterns in agriculture, women's labor, marriage and kinship. Through the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people" we discuss the premium communities placed on …
The chapter examines pre-colonial systems that enable the reader to enquire what led to the present leadership dilemma in Africa. It highlights pre-colonial Africa's wide diversity of politics ...
Cheikh Anta Diop, Pre-colonial Black Africa, (Lawrence Hill Books, ... and the weak governmental control over the environmental impact of small scale mining, there is a feeling of nostalgia for ...
Abstract. Pre-colonial Africa had a wide diversity of politics and government, all related to the type of economic systems practised. Hunter-gatherers practised a form of primitive communism, while elsewhere three broad systems may be identified: large centralized kingdoms and empires; centralized mid-sized kingdoms; and widely scattered chiefdoms.
2. Conditions in pre-colonial Africa . Population density was low in most regions and at most times in pre-colonial Africa. Because people were widely spread out, land was in abundance but labour was scarce. Conflicts over land seldom developed and there were no economic incentives to give people property rights to land.
For much of the twentieth century pre-colonial African states were misinterpreted as the product of outside stimuli. Recent archaeological research on such polities, however, has revealed the autochthonous origins of social complexity and the state in Africa, providing valuable new insights for the comparative study of state formation in the past.
One of the primary elements in colonial enterprise and a factor in the movement of colonial frontiers in Australia (and elsewhere including South Africa, Canada and the USA) was mining. In nineteenth century Australia, this was dramatically realised through a gold rush epoch. A global phenomenon, gold rushes for Australia were a national ...
We commence with important observations about Sub-Saharan Africa's physical environment, community and economy in the pre-colonial era, noting patterns in agriculture, women's labor, marriage and kinship. Through the concepts of ―rights in persons‖ and ―wealth in people‖ we discuss the premium communities placed on …
PDF | On Jan 1, 2013, Thomas Thondhlana and others published Pre-colonial mining and metalworking in southern Africa: An overview with specific reference to Zimbabwe | Find, read and cite all the ...
The collapse of complex state systems in pre-colonial Africa is an interesting phenomenon both in its causality factors and in how people responded to it. Clearly, …
Nevertheless, our review reveals some interesting patterns worthy of, albeit broad, comparison to other tropical areas that have been hypothesised as witnessing major changes in pre- and post-colonial land-use. Firstly, pre-colonial translocations into the Philippines in the Neolithic and Metal Ages were apparently fit within Indigenous swidden ...