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West Africa in History: Volume 2 (Since 1800)
West Africa in History: Volume 2 (Since 1800)
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This book completes the author's odyssey around the vast West African landscape, a formidable journey through time and space. He describes the steadily growing influence of the British and French throughout the 1800s, the conquest of the Niger and the introduction of colonial rule at the end of the century. The long, painful struggle for independence begins, with parallels highlighted within and between French- and British-West Africa. As Conton puts it, "not fourteen separate movements towards independence in West Africa, nor thirty in Africa" but "a single movement...a movement towards unity in Africa". Fourteen anglophone and francophone nations eventually emerge. When at last freedom is achieved, troubles soon appear...
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